1 Kings 7:12
And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.
2 Chronicles 4:9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
Acts 3:11And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto 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 →