1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it. And he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

In Context

8The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house. And they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

10And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

1 Kings 7:51Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated--the silver, and the gold, and the vessels--and put them in the treasuries of the

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:2-11

The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1011.) 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord . 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord , the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the porch before the… Read the whole commentary →

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