1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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 rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

10He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.

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Cross References

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

1 Kings 7:51Thus all the work that King Solomon did in the LORD’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of the LORD’s house.

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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