1 Kings 6:9
New International Version
So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.

New Living Translation
After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.

English Standard Version
So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.

Berean Standard Bible
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

King James Bible
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

New King James Version
So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.

New American Standard Bible
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

NASB 1995
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

NASB 1977
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Legacy Standard Bible
So he built the house and completed it; and he paneled the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Amplified Bible
So Solomon built the house (temple) and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Christian Standard Bible
When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.

American Standard Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he built the house and he finished it and he roofed the house with planks of cedar.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

Contemporary English Version
The roof of the temple was made out of beams and cedar boards. The workers finished building the outside of the temple.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he built the house, and finished it: end he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

English Revised Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When he had finished building the walls, he roofed the temple with rows of cedar beams and planks.

Good News Translation
So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.

International Standard Version
After Solomon built the Temple and finished it, he covered the Temple with beams and planks made of cedar.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.

Literal Standard Version
And he builds the house, and completes it, and covers the house [with] beams and rows of cedars.

Majority Standard Bible
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.

New American Bible
When he had finished building the house, it was roofed in with rafters and boards of cedar.

NET Bible
He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

New Revised Standard Version
So he built the house, and finished it; he roofed the house with beams and planks of cedar.

New Heart English Bible
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Webster's Bible Translation
So he built the house and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

World English Bible
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house with beams and rows of cedars.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Chambers
8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor. 9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar. 10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.…

Cross References
1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

1 Kings 6:10
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

1 Kings 6:14
So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

1 Kings 6:38
In his eleventh year and eighth month, the month of Bul, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.

Song of Solomon 1:17
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.


Treasury of Scripture

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

he built

1 Kings 6:14,38
So Solomon built the house, and finished it…

with beams and boards of cedar.

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1 Kings 6
1. The building of Solomon's temple
5. The chambers thereof
11. God's promise unto it
15. The ceiling and adorning of it
23. The cherubim
31. The doors
36. The court
37. The time of building it














(9) And covered--that is, roofed the house with a roof of cedar beams and boarding thereon. Some have supposed that he "covered" the outside walls with cedar, so that the whole should still look like a wooden tabernacle; but this is not necessarily implied, and is in itself unlikely.

Verse 9. - So he built the house and finished it [i.e., the exterior (see on ver. 14)] and covered [i.e., roofed, same word Deuteronomy 33:21; Jeremiah 22:14; Haggai 1:4. There is no reference to the lining of cedar which was applied to the interior. That is described in ver. 15] the house with beams and boards [Heb. rows, ranks. The same word is used of soldiers 2 Kings 11:8, 15] of cedar. [It has been universally held till quite lately that the roof was either vaulted (Thenius) or flat (Bahr, Keil). But Mr. Fergussen has alleged some reasons for believing that it was a span or gable roof. It is true that Oriental buildings almost invariably have externally flat(internally arched) roofs. In Palestine, because of the scarcity of timber, no other form is possible. But the temple, as we have seen, was constructed after the model of the tabernacle, and the latter, as the name almost implies, and as necessity would require, had a ridged roof (see Dict. Bib. 3 p. 1453). It does not necessarily follow, however, as Fergusson assumes, that the temple followed the tabernacle in this respect. It is obvious that when a "house was built unto the name of the Lord," the form of the tent might be abandoned as inappropriate. It is true that this shape would be consecrated to them by many centuries of use, but it is also possible that in a house it would strike them as altogether bizarre.]

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So [Solomon] built
וַיִּ֥בֶן (way·yi·ḇen)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

the temple
הַבַּ֖יִת (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

and finished it,
וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ (way·ḵal·lê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

roofing
וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן (way·yis·pōn)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5603: To hide by covering, to roof, wainscot, to reserve

it
הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

with beams
גֵּבִ֔ים (gê·ḇîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1356: A log, well, cistern

and planks
וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖ת (ū·śə·ḏê·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7713: Row, rank (of soldiers)

of cedar.
בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃ (bā·’ă·rā·zîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 729: Made of cedar


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