1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 was on the right hand of the house : and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

10And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered 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 7:51And Solomon finished all the work that he made in the house of the Lord, and brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver and the gold, and the vessels, and laid them up in the treasures 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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