1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

8And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.

10And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.

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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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