1 Kings 6:9

World English Bible (2000)

So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:14 : 14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
  • 1 Kgs 6:38 : 38 In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

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

    10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

    11The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

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

    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

    16He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

    17The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

    18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

    19He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

    20Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    83%

    35He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

    36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-8
    7 verses
    80%

    2The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

    3The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

    4For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.

    5Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

    6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

    7The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

    8The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

  • 2 Chr 3:5-8
    4 verses
    78%

    5The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

    6He garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.

    8He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

    2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

    3It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

  • 1 Kgs 6:38
    77%

    38In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

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

    11Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

    12The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    75%

    11Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

    7He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

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

    29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

    30The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

    31For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall].

    32So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

    33So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    75%

    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house of Yahweh, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Yahweh was completed.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    74%

    6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

  • Jer 22:14
    74%

    14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Ezek 41:16
    74%

    16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    74%

    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:22
    74%

    22The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    73%

    1Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • 2 Chr 6:10
    72%

    10"Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    72%

    1It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  • Song 1:17
    72%

    17The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

  • Ezra 6:4
    72%

    4with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

  • Ezek 41:8
    72%

    8I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    72%

    11Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.