1 Kings 6:9

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

Darby Translation

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 entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [floor], and out of the middle into the third.

10And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.

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Cross References

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

1 Kings 7:51And all the work was finished that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated; the silver and the gold and the vessels he put among the treasures of the house of Jehovah.

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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