1 Kings 6:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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  • 88%

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

    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

  • 87%

    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.

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

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

  • 83%

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:2-8
    7 verses
    80%

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

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

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

    5 Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

    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 round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

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

    8 The door for the middle side-chambers 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%

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

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

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

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

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

  • 76%

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

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

  • 11 Hiram 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%

    6 He made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it 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.

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

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

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

    32 So [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.

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

  • 16 Now 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 10 Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room 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 It 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,

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

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

  • 8 I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

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