King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 6:9
“So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 6
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone 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 in building.
The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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