1 Kings 7:12
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
11Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
13Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.
2 Chronicles 4:9Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.
Acts 3:11And while he kept his hands on Peter and John, all the people came running together to the covered way which is named Solomon's, full of wonder.
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 →