1 Kings 6:36

King James Version

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

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.

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

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 built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. ¹⁶ And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. ¹⁷ And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. ¹⁹ And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord . ²⁰ And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar. ²¹ So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. ²² And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. ²³ And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high. ²⁴ And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

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.