1 Kings 7:12
And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the house of LORD, and the porch of the house.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.
2 Chronicles 4:9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
Acts 3:11And as the lame man who was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, amazed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:2-13
The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1004.) 1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and… Read the whole commentary →