1 Kings 7:11

Above these were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

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In The King James Version

And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

In Context

10The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.

12The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

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Cross References

1 Peter 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:2-13

The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1004.) 1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and… Read the whole commentary →

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