Solomon Builds His Palace
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But Solomon took a thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.
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He also built the b House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.
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And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.
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There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
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And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and window was opposite window in three tiers.
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He also made the Hall of Pillars: its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and in front of them was a portico with pillars, and a canopy was in front of them.
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Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment, where he might judge; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.
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And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the hall, of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, c whom he had taken as wife.
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All these were of costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the great court.
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The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits.
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And above were costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood.
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The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the d inner court of the house of the LORD e and the vestibule of the temple.
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Cross References
1 Kings 3:1
Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall all around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 9:10
Now it happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house
2 Chronicles 8:1
It came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house.
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Cross References
1 Kings 10:17
He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:21
All King Solomon's drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:16
He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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Cross References
1 Kings 3:1
Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall all around Jerusalem.
1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
1 Kings 11:1
But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites -
2 Chronicles 8:11
Now Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
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Cross References
John 10:23
And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
Acts 3:11
Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.