Verse 9
1 Kings 6:9
World English Bible, British Edition
9
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams
and planks of cedar.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּ֥בֶן אֶת הַ/בַּ֖יִת וַ/יְכַלֵּ֑/הוּ וַ/יִּסְפֹּ֤ן אֶת הַ/בַּ֨יִת֙ גֵּבִ֔ים וּ/שְׂדֵרֹ֖ת בָּ/אֲרָזִֽים
English Translation
And he built the house and completed it, and he lined the house with beams and planks of cedar.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come
out of the land of Egyp...
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2
The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty
cubits, and its width twenty,...
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3
The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits,
which was along the wid...
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4
He made windows of fixed lattice work for the house.
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5
Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the
walls of the house all around...
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6
The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide,
and the third was seven c...
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7
The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared
at the quarry; and no hammer...
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8
The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house.
They went up by winding stair...
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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 ti...
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11
The LORD’s word came to Solomon, saying,
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12
“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my
statutes, and execute my ordin...
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13
I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will not forsake my
people Israel.”
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14
So Solomon built the house and finished it.
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15
He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the
floor of the house to the wall...
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16
He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of
cedar from the floor to the ceil...
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17
In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
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18
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers.
All was cedar. No stone was...
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19
He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to
set the ark of the LORD’s coven...
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20
Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits
in width, and twenty cubit...
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21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains
of gold across before the inner...
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22
He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished.
He also overlaid the whole...
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23
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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24
Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits
was the length of the other wi...
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25
The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure
and one form.
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One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
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27
He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim
were stretched out, so that th...
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28
He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures
of cherubim, palm trees, and open fl...
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30
He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
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31
For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood.
The lintel and door posts were...
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32
So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of
cherubim, palm trees, and open...
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33
He also made the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out
of a fourth part of the wall,
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and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding,
and the two leaves of th...
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35
He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them
with gold fitted on the engra...
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36
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course
of cedar beams.
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37
The foundation of the LORD’s house was laid in the fourth year,
in the month Ziv.
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In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the
house was finished throughout...
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