1 Kings 6:10

New International Reader's Version

He built side rooms all along the temple. Each room was seven and a half feet high. They were joined to the temple by cedar beams.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:11

A message came to Solomon from the Lord. The Lord said,

1 Kings 6:9

So Solomon built the temple and finished it. He made its roof out of beams and cedar boards.

2 Kings 11:2

But Jehosheba went and got Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Jehosheba was the daughter of King Jehoram and the sister of Ahaziah. She stole Joash away from among the royal princes. All of them were about to be murdered. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. That’s how she hid him from Athaliah. And that’s why Athaliah didn’t kill him.

1 Chronicles 28:11

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the porch of the temple. He gave him the plans for its buildings and its storerooms. He gave him the plans for its upper parts and its inside rooms. He gave him the plans for the place where sin is paid for and forgiven.

Song of Solomon 1:17

“Cedar trees above us are the beams of our house. Fir trees overhead are its rafters.”

Jeremiah 35:2

“Go to the members of the family line of Rekab. Invite them to come to one of the side rooms in my house. Then give them wine to drink.”

Ezekiel 41:6

The side rooms were on three floors. There were 30 rooms on each floor. Ledges had been built all around the wall of the temple. So the floor beams of the side rooms rested on the ledges. The beams didn’t go into the temple wall.