1 Kings 7:12
The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
11Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
13King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
2 Chronicles 4:9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
Acts 3:11As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
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 →