He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
1 Kings 6:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So he built the house and finished it; he roofed the house with beams and planks of cedar. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Solomon built the temple building and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar. American Standard Version (1901) So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. Common English Bible He completed the temple with a roof of cedar beams and cross-planks. Catholic Public Domain Version And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So he built the house, and finished it. End he covered the house with roofs of cedar. |
He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
The entrance for the lower story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. Solomon brought in the things that his father David had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being on the altar that he built for the Lord, offering incense before the Lord. So he completed the house.
He set up the court around the tabernacle and the altar and put up the screen at the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.