1 Kings 6:9

And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar.

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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 at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level.

10And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood.

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Cross References

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

1 Kings 7:51And Solomon perfected all the work that he was doing in the house of the Lord. And he brought in the things that his father David had sanctified: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels. And he stored these in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

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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