1 Kings 6:9

And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house [with] beams and rows of cedars.

Young's Literal Translation

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 opening of the middle side [is] at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third.

10And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits [is] its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:14And Solomon buildeth the house and completeth it;

1 Kings 7:51And it is complete — all the work that king Solomon hath made [for] the house of Jehovah, and Solomon bringeth in the sanctified things of David his father; the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he hath put in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

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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