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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 7:11

Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Palace;   Solomon;   Stones;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Solomon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Wall;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Palace;   Persecution in the Bible;   Stone;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Palace;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pillar;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.
Hebrew Names Version
Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
King James Version
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
English Standard Version
And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar.
New Century Version
On top of these foundation stones were other blocks of fine stone and cedar beams.
New English Translation
Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.
Amplified Bible
And above [the foundation] were expensive stones, stones cut according to measure, and cedar.
New American Standard Bible
And above were valuable stones, cut according to measure, and cedar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Aboue also were costly stones, squared by rule, and boardes of cedar.
Legacy Standard Bible
And above were precious stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.
Contemporary English Version
The cedar beams and other stones that had been cut to size were on top of these foundation stones.
Darby Translation
And above were costly stones, hewn stones, according to the measures, and cedar.
Easy-to-Read Version
On top of these stones there were other expensive stones and cedar beams.
George Lamsa Translation
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewn stones, and cedars.
Good News Translation
On top of them were other stones, cut to measure, and cedar beams.
Lexham English Bible
with precious stones above, just the right size, and cedar.
Literal Translation
And above were costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stone and cedar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and costly fre stones theron acordinge to ye measure, and Ceders.
American Standard Version
And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
Bible in Basic English
Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And aboue were riche stones, squared after a certayne rule, and couered with Cedar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.
King James Version (1611)
And aboue were costly stones (after the measures of hewed stones) and Cedars.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars.
English Revised Version
And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
Berean Standard Bible
Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and preciouse stoonys hewun of euene mesure weren aboue; in lijk maner and of cedre.
Young's Literal Translation
and above [are] precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, and cedar;
Update Bible Version
And above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
Webster's Bible Translation
And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewn stones, and cedars.
World English Bible
Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
New King James Version
And above were costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood.
New Living Translation
The blocks of high-quality stone used in the walls were also cut to measure, and cedar beams were also used.
New Life Bible
Above this were stones of much worth, cut to go well into place, and cedar.
New Revised Standard
There were costly stones above, cut to measure, and cedarwood.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, above, were costly stones, after the dimensions of hewn stone, and cedar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in like manner planks of cedar.
Revised Standard Version
And above were costly stones, hewn according to measurement, and cedar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.

Contextual Overview

1 Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it. 2 For he built the House of the L'vanon Forest 175 feet long, eighty-seven-and-a-half feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high, on four rows of cedar posts, with cedar beams on the posts. 3 It had a roof made of cedar and supported by beams lying on forty-five posts, fifteen in a row. 4 There were three rows of window openings, placed so that the windows on facing walls were opposite each other at all three levels. 5 All the doors and doorways were rectangular and opposite each other at all three levels. 6 He made the columned hall eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet wide, with a columned, corniced porch in front of it. 7 He made the Hall of the Throne his place for dispensing justice, that is, the Hall of Judgment; it was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling. 8 His own living quarters, in the other courtyard, set back from the Hall, were similarly designed. He also made a house like this Hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Shlomo had taken as his wife. 9 All these buildings were made of expensive stone blocks, cut to measure and finished by saws on the inner surfaces as well as the outer ones. These stones were used from the foundation to the eaves and outward from the buildings all the way to the Great Courtyard. 10 The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones — stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ephesians 2:20-22, 1 Peter 2:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:9 - costly stones

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was,
Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.
Genesis 7:5
Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.
Genesis 7:6
Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
Genesis 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Genesis 7:23
He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:24
The water held power over the earth for 150 days.
2 Kings 7:2
The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God: "Why, this couldn't happen even if Adonai made windows in heaven!" Elisha answered, "All right, you yourself will see it with your own eyes; but you won't eat any of it!"
2 Kings 7:19
the servant had answered the man of God, "Why, this couldn't happen even if Adonai made windows in heaven!" and Elisha had said, "All right, you yourself will see it with your own eyes; but you won't eat any of it!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And above were costly stones,.... Above the foundation, from thence to the top of the buildings; the whole walls were made of such right up to the ceiling:

after the measure of hewed stones; which, according to the Rabbins, as Kimchi says, were five hands breadth:

and cedars; beams of cedars over them, or these, both the foundation and the walls, were lined with them.


 
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