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1 Kings 7:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. "
1 Kings 7:11
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9 All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut 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 with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house.
13 King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
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1 Kings 7:1
"Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house."
1 Kings 7:2
"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."
1 Kings 7:3
"It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row."
1 Kings 7:4
"There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:5
"All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:6
"He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them."
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