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The Darby Translation

1 Kings 6:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Ceiling;   Temple, Solomon's;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ceilings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Shechem;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Oracle;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ceiling;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beam;   Board;   Cedar;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.
Hebrew Names Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
King James Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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.
New Century Version
Solomon put a roof made from beams and cedar boards on the Temple. So he finished building the Temple
New English Translation
He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.
Amplified Bible
So Solomon built the house (temple) and finished it, and roofed the house 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.
Legacy Standard Bible
So he built the house and completed it; and he paneled the house with beams and planks of cedar.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
So he built the house, and after finishing it, he put its roof on — cedar planks over beams.
Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon finished building the main part of the Temple and then covered it inside with cedar boards.
George Lamsa Translation
So he built the house and finished it; and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.
Good News Translation
So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.
Lexham English Bible
So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.
Literal Translation
And he built the house and finished it, and covered the house with beams and rows of cedars.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus buylded he the house, & fynished it, & syled ye house both aboue & by the walles wt Ceder wodd.
American Standard Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
Bible in Basic English
So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so he built the house, and finished it: and he roofed the house vaultly with beames of Cedar tymber.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.
King James Version (1611)
So he built the house and finished it: and couered the house with beams and boards of Cedar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.
English Revised Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
Berean Standard Bible
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Salomon bildide the hows, and endide it. Also Salomon hilide the hows with couplis of cedre,
Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house [with] beams and rows of cedars.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.
New Living Translation
After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.
New Life Bible
So he built the house and finished it. And he made the roof of the house of large pieces of cedar wood.
New Revised Standard
So he built the house, and finished it; he roofed the house with beams and planks of cedar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he built the house, and finished it, - and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;
Douay-Rheims Bible
So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.
Revised Standard Version
So he built the house, and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

Contextual Overview

1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah. 2 And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. 3 And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, [and] ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house. 4 And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices. 5 And against the wall of the house he built floors round about, [against] the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about. 6 The lowest floor was five cubits broad, and the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for in the [thickness of the wall of] the house he made resets round about outside, that nothing should be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, when it was being built, was built of stone entirely made ready before it was brought thither; so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built. 8 The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [floor], and out of the middle into the third. 9 And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. 10 And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he built: 1 Kings 6:14, 1 Kings 6:38

with beams and boards of cedar: or, the vault beams and the ceilings with cedar

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:33 - So Moses 1 Kings 5:6 - cedar trees

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of Adam's generations. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 10:1
And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.
Genesis 48:15
And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God that shepherded me all my life long to this day,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he built the house, and finished it,.... The body of it, the walls of the holy and most holy place, with the chambers on the sides of them, and the porch at the end that led into them:

and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar; with hollow boards, as the Targum, which formed an arch ceiling to it, and made it look very grand and beautiful; and then over them were laid beams and planks of cedar, not properly as a flat roof to it, but rather as a flooring for other buildings; for upon this, as in 1 Kings 6:10, there were chambers built.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He built the house, and finished it - i. e., the external shell of the house. The internal fittings were added afterward. See 1 Kings 6:15-22.

Covered the house - Roofed it with a wooden roof, sloped like our roofs.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:9. Covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. — The Eastern custom is very different from ours: we ceil with plaster, and make our floors of wood; they make their floors of plaster or painted tiles, and make their ceilings of wood. But it may not be improper to observe that, in ancient times, our buildings were somewhat similar. Westminster Hall is a proof of this.


 
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