1 Kings 7:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:17 : 17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.
  • 1 Kgs 7:10-11 : 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:10-12
    3 verses
    86%

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

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

    12The 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.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

    18Solomon'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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:5-8
    4 verses
    77%

    5And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

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

    7Then 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.

    8And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36
    77%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5And 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:

    6The 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.

    7(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

  • Ezek 41:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15And 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;

    16And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

    17And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-18
    4 verses
    74%

    15The 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.

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

    17And 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.)

  • Ezra 6:4
    74%

    4With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

    30And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

  • Ezek 41:8
    72%

    8And 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.

  • 2 Chr 3:3-7
    5 verses
    72%

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

    4And 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.

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

    6And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
    72%

    2Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    72%

    11Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2
    72%

    2And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10And 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.

  • Ezek 41:12
    71%

    12And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    71%

    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:36
    71%

    36In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    71%

    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
    71%

    12And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

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

    3The 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.

  • Ezek 42:10
    70%

    10(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    70%

    11So 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.

  • Ezek 40:9
    70%

    9Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    70%

    15Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    70%

    15And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

  • Ezek 42:7
    70%

    7And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

  • Ezek 41:5
    70%

    5Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.