1 Kings 6 · Verse 9

1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings 6:9, King James Version

1 Kings 6:9 in other translations

BSBSo Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
WEBSo he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
ASVSo he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
YLTAnd he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house with beams and rows of cedars.
DARBYAnd he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
BBESo he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.
WebsterSo he built the house and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

What does 1 Kings 6:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 6:9-10
9-10. built the house--The temple is here distinguished from the wings or chambers attached to it--and its roofing was of cedar-wood.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Covered the house with beams and boards of cedar - The Eastern custom is very different from ours: we ceil with plaster, and make our floors of wood; they make their floors of plaster or painted tiles, and make their ceilings of wood. But it may not be improper to observe that, in ancient times, our buildings were somewhat similar. Westminster Hall is a proof of this.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 6:1-10

The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the Lord, which was far beyond all other beauties. It was to be the temple of the God of peace, therefore no iron tool must be heard; quietness and silence suit and help religious exercises. God's work should be done with much…

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1 Kings 6:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּ֥בֶןvai.Yi.venand he builtH1129
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַבַּ֖יִתha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004
וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּvay.kha.Le.huand he finished itH3615
וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ןvai.yis.Ponand he coveredH5603
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַבַּ֙יִת֙ha.Ba.yitthe houseH1004
גֵּבִ֔יםge.VimbeamsH1356
וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖תu.se.de.Rotand planksH7713
בָּאֲרָזִֽים\׃ba.'a.ra.Zimwith <the> cedar<s>H730

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 6:9

  • 1 Kings 6:14

    So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

  • 1 Kings 6:38

    And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he built.
14,38
with beams and boards of cedar. or, the vault beams and theceilings with cedar.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 1 Kings 6:8

    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.

  • 1 Kings 6:9

    So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

  • 1 Kings 6:10

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

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1 Kings 6:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Labró pues la casa, y acabóla; y cubrió la casa con artesonados de cedro.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il bâtit la maison et l’acheva; et il couvrit la maison de poutres et de rangées de planches de cèdre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er baute das Haus und vollendete es, und er deckte das Haus mit Balken und Reihen von Cedern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et ædificavit domum, et consummavit eam: texit quoque domum laquearibus cedrinis.