1 Kings 7:2

World English Bible (2000)

For 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 10:17 : 17 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
  • 2 Chr 9:16 : 16 [he made] three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 9:19 : 19 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 7:3
    84%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.

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

    3 The 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:1
    80%

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:6-12
    7 verses
    80%

    6 He 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.

    7 He 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.

    8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

    9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

    10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

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

    12 The 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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15 He 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.

    16 He 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.

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

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

  • 2 Chr 3:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2 He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

    3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

    4 The porch that was before [the house], its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:36
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 "Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 Against 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.

    6 The 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.

  • Acts 7:47
    74%

    47 But Solomon built him a house.

  • 2 Chr 3:15
    74%

    15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

  • Song 3:9
    74%

    9 King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    74%

    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 1 Kgs 6:20
    74%

    20 Within 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 7:15
    73%

    15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    73%

    4 and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:6
    72%

    6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    72%

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

  • Ezek 41:15
    72%

    15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

  • Ezek 41:13
    71%

    13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    71%

    11 Thus 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.

  • 2 Chr 3:8
    71%

    8 He 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.

  • 2 Chr 2:3
    71%

    3 Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, "As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].

  • 1 Kgs 6:23
    71%

    23 In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    71%

    10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    71%

    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

  • Ezek 41:8
    71%

    8 I 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 Sam 7:7
    71%

    7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

  • 2 Chr 2:16
    70%

    16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem."