1 Kings 7:1-12
Solomon’s Palace Complex

1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

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2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

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3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

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4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

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5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

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6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.

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7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

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8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.

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9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.

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10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

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11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

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12 And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

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