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Geneva Bible

1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.

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.
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.
Darby Translation
And he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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 in the foure hundreth and foure score yeere (after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt) and in the fourth yere of the reigne of Salomon ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, (which is the second moneth) he built the house of the Lord. 2 And the house which King Salomon built for the Lorde, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie. 3 And the porch before the Temple of the house was twentie cubites long according to the breadth of the house, and ten cubites broade before the house. 4 And in the house he made windowes, broad without, and narrowe within. 5 And by the wall of the house hee made galleries round about, euen by the walles of the house round about the Temple and the oracle, and made chambers round about. 6 The nethermost gallerie was fiue cubites broade, and the middlemost sixe cubites broade, and the third seuen cubites broade: for he made restes round about without the house, that the beames should not be fastened in the walles of the house. 7 And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfite, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any toole of yron heard in the house, while it was in building. 8 The doore of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, & men went vp with winding stayres into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third. 9 So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees. 10 And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames 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 generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,
Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,
Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Henoch walked with God, and he was no more seene: for God tooke him away.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a iust and vpright man in his time: and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Shem, Ham and Iapheth: vnto whom sonnes were borne after the flood.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yeere olde and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. walke before me, and be thou vpright,
Genesis 48:15
Also he blessed Ioseph and sayde, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Izhak did walke, the God, which hath fed me al my life long vnto this day, blesse thee.

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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