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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 6:9 - Strong Concordance

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1Ki 6:9 Strong Concordance So he built [01129] the house [01004], and finished [03615] it; and covered [05603] the house [01004] with beams [01356] and boards [07713] of cedar [0730].
  King James So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
built the house--The temple is here distinguished from the wings or chambers attached to it--and its roofing was of cedar-wood.
 
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15 And he built [01129] the walls [07023] of the house [01004] within [01004] with boards [06763] of cedar [0730], both the floor [07172] of the house [01004], and the walls [07023] of the cieling [05604]: and he covered [06823] them on the inside [01004] with wood [06086], and covered [06823] the floor [07172] of the house [01004] with planks [06763] of fir [01265].
16 And he built [01129] twenty [06242] cubits [0520] on the sides [03411] of the house [01004], both [04480] the floor [07172] and the walls [07023] with boards [06763] of cedar [0730]: he even built [01129] them for it within [01004], even for the oracle [01687], even for the most [06944] holy [06944] place.
17 And the house [01004], that is, the temple [01964] before [03942] it, was forty [0705] cubits [0520] long.
18 And the cedar [0730] of the house [01004] within [06441] was carved [04734] with knops [06497] and open [06362] flowers [06731]: all was cedar [0730]; there was no stone [068] seen [07200].
19 And the oracle [01687] he prepared [03559] in [08432] the house [01004] within [06441], to set [05414] there the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068].
20 And the oracle [01687] in the forepart [06440] was twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in length [0753], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in breadth [07341], and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] in the height [06967] thereof: and he overlaid [06823] it with pure [05462] gold [02091]; and so covered [06823] the altar [04196] which was of cedar [0730].
21 So Solomon [08010] overlaid [06823] the house [01004] within [06441] with pure [05462] gold [02091]: and he made a partition [05674] by the chains [07572] [07572] of gold [02091] before [06440] the oracle [01687]; and he overlaid [06823] it with gold [02091].
22 And the whole house [01004] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091], until he had finished [08552] all the house [01004]: also the whole altar [04196] that was by the oracle [01687] he overlaid [06823] with gold [02091].