1 Kings 7:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 3:1 : 1 The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 8:11 : 11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
  • 1 Kgs 9:24 : 24 Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the City of David to the palace Solomon built for her.
  • 2 Kgs 20:4 : 4 Isaiah had not yet left the middle courtyard when the LORD’s message came to him,

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  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

    12Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
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    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 3:1
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    1The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 7:9
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    9All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12-13
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    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.

    13Solomon Commissions Hiram to Supply the Temple King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But Solomon built a house for him.

  • 1 Kgs 9:24
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    24Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the City of David to the palace Solomon built for her.

  • 2 Chr 9:3
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    3When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s wisdom, the palace he had built,

  • 1 Kgs 9:16
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    16(Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city. He gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who had married Solomon.)

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-4
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    1The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

    2They came from nations about which the LORD had warned the Israelites,“You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them.

    3He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.

    4When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
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    4When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-2
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:11-12
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    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,

    12the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:“I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1Building Projects and Commercial Efforts After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and his royal palace,

  • 1 Chr 28:11
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    11David gave to his son Solomon the blueprints for the temple porch, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper areas, its inner rooms, and the room for atonement.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
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    8He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-3
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-16
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple(1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
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    2O LORD, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    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 3:9-11
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    9King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.

    10Its posts were made of silver; its back was made of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple wool; its interior was inlaid with leather by the maidens of Jerusalem.

    11Come out, O maidens of Zion, and gaze upon King Solomon! He is wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, on the most joyous day of his life!

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

  • 2 Chr 7:8
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    8At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Stream of Egypt in the south.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13O LORD, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • 1 Kgs 6:10-12
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    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:

    12“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

  • 1 Chr 28:6
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    6He said to me,‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10Foreign Affairs and Building Projects After twenty years, during which Solomon built the LORD’s temple and the royal palace,

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the LORD God of Israel.

    7David said to Solomon:“My son, I really wanted to build a temple to honor the LORD my God.

  • 2 Chr 3:4-5
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    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 6:30
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    30He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.