1 Kings 6:36

Brenton's Septuagint

And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

Hebrew Names Version
He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

King James Version
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

English Standard Version
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.

New Century Version
The inner courtyard was enclosed by walls, which were made of three rows of cut stones and one row of cedar boards.

New English Translation
He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

Amplified Bible
He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

New American Standard Bible
And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee built the court within with three rowes of hewed stone, and one rowe of beames of cedar.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

Contemporary English Version
The inner courtyard of the temple had walls made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams.

Complete Jewish Bible
He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

Darby Translation
And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar-beams.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then they built a wall around the inner yard. Each wall was made from three rows of cut stones and one row of cedar timbers.

George Lamsa Translation
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

Good News Translation
An inner court was built in front of the Temple, enclosed with walls which had one layer of cedar beams for every three layers of stone.

Lexham English Bible
Then he built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams.

Literal Translation
And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he buylded a courte also within wt thre rowes of fre stone, and with one rowe of playne Ceder tymber.

American Standard Version
And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

Bible in Basic English
And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he built the inner court with three rowes of hewed stone, and one rowe of Cedar wood.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

King James Version (1611)
And hee built the inner Court with three rowes of hewed stone, and a row of Cedar beames.

English Revised Version
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

Berean Standard Bible
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bildide a large street with ynne, bi thre ordris of stoonys maad fair, and bi oon ordre of trees of cedre.

Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar.

Update Bible Version
And he built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

World English Bible
He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

New King James Version
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

New Living Translation
The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.

New Life Bible
He built the inside place with three rows of cut stone and one row of large pieces of cedar wood.

New Revised Standard
He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he built the inner court, with three rows of hewn stone, - and a row of beams of cedar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

Revised Standard Version
He built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone and one course of cedar beams.

THE MESSAGE
He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stones topped with a course of planed cedar timbers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed. ¹⁶ And he made two molten chapiters to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter. ¹⁷ And he made two ornaments of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter. ¹⁸ And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter. ¹⁹ And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits, ²⁰ and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width. ²¹ And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz. ²² And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished gilding the whole house. ²³ And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits. ²⁴ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the inner: Exodus 27:9-19, Exodus 38:9-20, 2 Chronicles 4:9, 2 Chronicles 7:7, Revelation 11:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:12 - three rows 2 Kings 21:5 - in the two courts 2 Chronicles 6:13 - the court Ezra 6:4 - three rows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he built the inner court,.... The court of the priests, 2 Chronicles 4:9; so called to distinguish it from the outer court, where the people assembled: this was built

with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams; the rows of stones were one upon another, topped with a row of cedar beams; or rather the cedar was a lining to the stones; and the whole is supposed to be about three cubits high, and was so low, that the people in the outward court might see priests ministering for them, and could converse with them; under the second temple, as Maimonides h says, the court of the priests was higher than that of the court of Israel two cubits and an half, called the great court, for which doors were made, and those overlaid with brass, 2 Chronicles 4:9.

h Hilchot Beth Habechirah, c. 6. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The inner court - An outer court is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 4:9. The inner court is probably identical with the “higher court” of Jeremiah Jeremiah 36:10, being raised above the outer, as were sometimes the inner courts of Assyrian palaces. The court seems to have surrounded the temple. Its dimensions may be reasonably presumed to have been double those of the court of the tabernacle, i. e., 100 cubits on each side of the temple, and 200 cubits at the ends; or, about 720 feet long by 360 broad.

With three rows of hewed stone - Either a fence enclosing the court, or the area of the court, which was possibly formed by three layers of hewn stone placed one above the other, and was then boarded on the top with cedar planks. Such a construction would no doubt be elaborate; but if it was desired to elevate the inner court above the outer, this is the way in which it would be likely to have been done. The temple would be placed, like the Assyrian palaces, on an artificial platform; and the platform, being regarded as a part of the sacred building, would be constructed of the best material.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:36. Three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. — Does not this intimate that there were three courses of stone, and then one course of timber all through this wall? Three strata of stone and one stratum of timber, and so on. If so, could such a building be very durable? This is also referred to in the succeeding chapter, 1 Kings 7:11; and as both the temple and Solomon's house were built in the same manner, we may suppose that this was the ordinary way in which the better sort of buildings were constructed. Calmet thinks that to this mode of building the prophet alludes, Habakkuk 2:11: The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. But it should be observed that this was in the inner court, and therefore the timber was not exposed to the weather. The outer court does not appear to have been built stratum super stratum of stone and wood.