1 Kings 6:9

9 So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple [with] rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.

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 Now while the temple was being built, it was built [with] stones finished [at the] quarry, [so that] no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple as it was being built.

8 The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple [was] on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third [floor].

9 So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple [with] rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.

10 He also built the structure against all of the temple five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple with beams of cedar.

11 Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

Footnotes

• [a] Or "house"