1 Kings 6:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

1 Kings 6:9 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Here, I. The temple is called the house of the Lord (1 Kgs. 6:1), because it was, 1. Directed and modelled by him. Infinite Wisdom was the architect, and gave David the plan or pattern by the Spirit, not by word of mouth only, but, for the greater certainty and exactness, in writing (1 Chron. 28:11, 12), as he had given to Moses in the mouth a draught of the tabernacle. 2. Dedicated and devoted to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

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.