1 Kings 6:9

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He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:14 : 14 So Solomon finished building the temple.
  • 1 Kgs 6:38 : 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul(the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

    11The LORD’s message came to Solomon:

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-20
    7 verses
    87%

    14So Solomon finished building the temple.

    15He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

    16He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

    18The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.

    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.

    20The inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, as well as the cedar altar.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
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    35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-8
    7 verses
    80%

    2The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

    3The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

    4He made framed windows for the temple.

    5He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

    6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

    7As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

    8The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.

  • 2 Chr 3:5-8
    4 verses
    78%

    5He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.

    6He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.

    7He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.

    8He made the most holy place; its length was 30 feet, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. He plated it with 600 talents of fine gold.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1The Building of the Royal Palace Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.

    2He named it“The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

    3The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
    77%

    38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul(the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.

    12Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the hall of the palace.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    75%

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.

    7He also made a throne room, called“The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.

  • 1 Kgs 6:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

    29On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

    30He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.

    31He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided.

    32On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubim and the palm trees with hammered gold.

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

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    75%

    16All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid until it was finished; the LORD’s temple was completed.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

    9to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    74%

    6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

  • Jer 22:14
    74%

    14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

  • Ezek 41:16
    74%

    16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    74%

    18Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

  • 1 Kgs 6:22
    74%

    22He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    73%

    1David’s Prestige Grows King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs, stonemasons, and carpenters to build a palace for him.

  • 2 Chr 6:10
    72%

    10The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    72%

    1The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned,

  • Song 1:17
    72%

    17the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.

  • Ezra 6:4
    72%

    4with three layers of large stones and one layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized by the royal treasury.

  • Ezek 41:8
    72%

    8I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning After Solomon finished building the LORD’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,