1 Kings 7:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

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  • 1 Kgs 10:17 : 17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
  • 2 Chr 9:16 : 16 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 9:19 : 19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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  • 3 And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

    3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

  • 1 Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-12
    7 verses
    80%

    6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

    7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

    8 And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

    9 All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

    10 And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

    11 Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

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    14 So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

    15 The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

    18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

  • 2 Chr 3:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2 The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

    3 And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

    4 And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

    5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

  • 36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

  • 47 But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 15 And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

  • 9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 20 And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.

  • 15 He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

  • 4 And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

  • 1 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

  • 6 So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

  • 11 And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • 15 And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

  • 13 And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;

  • 18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

  • 8 And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

  • 3 And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

  • 23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

  • 10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

  • 7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

  • 16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.