1 Kings 7:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ And he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Right-ruling, where he ruled. And it was panelled with cedar from floor to floor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He made the porch for the throne where he was to judge, the Porch of Judgment; it was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ He made the throne room the Hall of Justice, where he would judge. It was covered with cedar from the lower to the upper levels.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ He also made the portico of the throne, in which is the tribunal. And he overlaid it with cedar wood, from the floor even to the summit.

1 Kings 7:7 Cross References

1 Kings 3:28

And all Yisra’ĕl heard of the right-ruling which the sovereign had rendered. And they feared the sovereign, for they saw that the wisdom of Elohim was in him to do right-ruling.

1 Kings 3:9

“Shall You then give to Your servant an understanding heart to rule Your people, to discern between good and evil? For who is able to rule this great people of Yours?”

1 Kings 6:3

And the porch at the front of the Hĕḵal of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the House, and its width ten cubits, from the front of the House.

Psalm 122:5

For there the thrones of right-ruling were set, The thrones of the house of Dawiḏ.

Proverbs 20:8

A sovereign who sits on the throne of judgment Is scattering all evil with his eyes.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Dawiḏ and over His reign, to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever. The ardour of יהוה of hosts does this.