1 Kings 6:9

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So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar boards.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:14 : 14 So Solomon built the house and completed it.
  • 1 Kgs 6:38 : 38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (the eighth month), the house was completed in every detail according to its specifications. Solomon built it in seven years.

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    10 He also built the annex against the entire house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.

    11 Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying:

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    14 So Solomon built the house and completed it.

    15 He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the ceiling, overlaying the interior with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with cypress planks.

    16 He built twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, to form the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was forty cubits long.

    18 The cedar within the house was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone could be seen.

    19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the house to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

    20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.

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    35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and he overlaid the carvings with evenly applied gold.

    36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-8
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    2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

    3 The vestibule in front of the main hall of the house was twenty cubits long, extending along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.

    4 He made windows with recessed frames for the house.

    5 He built a structure against the wall of the house, enclosing the walls of the house around the main hall and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.

    6 The lowest side chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the beams would not be embedded in the walls of the house.

    7 The house, when it was being built, was constructed of finished stone cut from the quarry, so that no hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.

    8 The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the south side of the house, with stairs going up to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

  • 2 Chr 3:5-8
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    5 He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.

    6 He adorned the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold used was gold from Parvaim.

    7 He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors of the house with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

    8 He made the Most Holy Place in the inner sanctuary. Its length was twenty cubits, corresponding to the width of the house, and its width was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Solomon built his palace over the course of thirteen years, completing its construction entirely.

    2 He constructed the House of the Forest of Lebanon, which was one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, supported by four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on top of the columns.

    3 It was paneled with cedar above the chambers that rested on the forty-five pillars, with fifteen pillars in each row.

  • 38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul (the eighth month), the house was completed in every detail according to its specifications. Solomon built it in seven years.

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    11 Above were precious stones cut to measure, along with cedar wood.

    12 The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams, similar in design to the inner courtyard of the Lord's house and its portico.

  • 11 Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 He made the Hall of Pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of the pillars and a canopy above them.

    7 He also made the Hall of the Throne, known as the Hall of Judgment, where he would judge. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the ceiling.

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    29 He decorated the walls of the house all around with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, both in the inner and outer rooms.

    30 He also overlaid the floor of the house with gold, both the inner and the outer rooms.

    31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood; the doorposts formed a pentagon.

    32 The two doors were made of olive wood, and he carved on them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread the gold over the cherubim and the palm trees.

    33 In the same way, he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall. They were four-sided.

  • 16 So all of Solomon’s work was carried out until the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid and until it was completed. The house of the Lord was finished perfectly.

  • 9 I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

  • 6 the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • 14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • 16 The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.

  • 18 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor misfortune.

  • 22 So the entire house was overlaid with gold until the entire house was finished. He also overlaid the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

  • 1 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar wood, stonemasons, and carpenters to build him a palace.

  • 10 The LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke, and I have taken the place of my father David and now sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 1 When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything he desired to accomplish,

  • 17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are cypress trees.

  • 4 It will have three layers of large stone and one layer of new timber. The cost will be paid from the royal treasury.

  • 8 I also saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. This foundation for the side chambers was six cubits high.

  • 11 So Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he successfully accomplished everything he had planned to do for the house of the LORD and for his own house.