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1 Kings 6:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Kings 6:9

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7 The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

8 The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

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

10 He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.

11 The LORD’s word came to Solomon, saying,

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1 Kings 7:2

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"For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars."

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Jeremiah 22:14

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"who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red."

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2 Chronicles 3:7

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

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1 Kings 7:7

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"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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2 Chronicles 3:5

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"He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains."

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1 Kings 6:14

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"So Solomon built the house and finished it."

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From This Chapter

1 Kings 6:1

"In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had 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, he began to build the LORD’s house."

1 Kings 6:2

"The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits."

1 Kings 6:3

"The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house."

1 Kings 6:4

"He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house."

1 Kings 6:5

"Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around."

1 Kings 6:6

"The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house."

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