1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with hollow tiles, and with boards of cedar.

Leeser Tanakh

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 [gallery] sidechamber was in the right side of the house: and with winding stairs they went up into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

10And he built the gallery against all the house, [each] five cubits in height; and it was fastened on to the house with timber of cedar.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:14So did Solomon build the house, and finish it.

1 Kings 7:51And so was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord: and Solomon brought in the things sanctified by David his father, the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, [and] he placed [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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