1 Kings 6:9

So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

Berean Standard Bible

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 bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:14So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

1 Kings 7:51So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them 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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