World English Bible
1 Kings 6:9
“So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 6
The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and 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 side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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