1 Kings 7:3

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:5 : 5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:4-7
    4 verses
    81%

    4There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.

    5All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 3:15
    78%

    15In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length of 52½ feet, with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    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 Chr 3:3-5
    3 verses
    77%

    3Solomon laid the foundation for God’s temple; its length(determined according to the old standard of measure) was 90 feet, and its width 30 feet.

    4The porch in front of the main hall was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple, and its height was 30 feet. He plated the inside with pure gold.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

    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.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

    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),

    17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    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 6:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 42:3
    74%

    3Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.

  • 2 Chr 3:7
    74%

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

  • Exod 27:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14The hangings on one side of the gate are to be twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

    15On the second side there are to be hangings twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

  • Ezek 42:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

    6For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle ones.

  • Exod 38:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14with hangings on one side of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,

    15and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

  • Song 1:17
    72%

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

  • Ezek 40:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.

    30There were porches all around, 43¾ feet long and 8¾ feet wide.

  • 1 Kgs 7:15
    72%

    15He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.

  • Ezek 41:6
    72%

    6The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.

  • Ezek 40:33
    72%

    33Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.

  • Ezek 40:7
    71%

    7The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.

  • Ezek 40:36
    71%

    36its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.

  • Ezek 40:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

    26There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

  • 1 Kgs 7:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments.

    18When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.

  • 2 Chr 3:9
    70%

    9The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

  • Exod 36:36
    70%

    36He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases.

  • 1 Kgs 6:20
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    70%

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

  • Ezek 41:8
    70%

    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.