1 Kings 6:9

9 So he built the house and finished it and covered the house with work of cedar placed in order.

1 Kings 6:9 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:9

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.

1 Kings 6:9 In-Context

7 And the house, when it was built, was put together of perfect stones made ready before they were brought there; so that there was no hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.

8 The door for the middle wing was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle wing and out of the middle into the third.

9 So he built the house and finished it and covered the house with work of cedar placed in order.

10 And then he built the wing against all the house, five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,