1 Kings 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² He built the House of the Forest of the Lebanon one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He built also the Forest of Lebanon House; its length was a hundred cubits, its breadth fifty, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

² He built the Forest of Lebanon Palace one hundred fifty feet in length, seventy-five feet in width, and forty-five feet in height. It had four rows of cedar columns with cedar engravings above the columns.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he built the house from the forest of Lebanon: one hundred cubits in length, and fifty cubits in width, and thirty cubits in height, with four walkways between columns of cedar. For he had hewn the cedar trees into columns.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² He built also the house of the forest of Libanus. The length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar-trees into pillars.

1 Kings 7:2 Cross References

1 Kings 10:17

He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver—it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 7:3

It was roofed with cedar on the forty-five rafters, fifteen in each row, which were on the pillars.

1 Kings 9:1

When Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,

1 Kings 9:19

as well as all of Solomon’s storage cities, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his cavalry, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

2 Chronicles 9:16

He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield, and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.

Isaiah 22:8

He has taken away the covering of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,