1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it,—and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 entrance of the lowest story, was on the right side of the house,—and, by winding stairs, went they up unto the middle [story], and, out of the middle, into, the third.

10and built the gallery against all the house, five cubits in height,—and so fastened the house, with timber of cedar.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:14Thus Solomon built the house, and finished it;

1 Kings 7:51So was completed all the work which King Solomon made for the house of Yahweh, and Solomon brought in the hallowed things of David his father—the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.

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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