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1 Kings 7:3

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The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.

KJV

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the House of the Forest of Lebanon

on 1 Kings 7:2-8

The state buildings come in order, beginning with the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Then come the colonnade, the Hall of Justice, Solomon’s own palace, and a palace for Pharaoh’s daughter. The “Hall of Justice, where he was to judge” gives in stone what Solomon asked for at 3:9.

This site's exposition

forty-five beams, fifteen per row

The Hebrew count of forty-five can belong to the beams or to the pillars, and John Gill and John Wesley read it as pillars. They place three rows of fifteen on an upper floor, one row fewer than the four rows of verse 2. The cedar roof lay above them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Fifteen - So in this second story were only three rows of pillars, which was sufficient for the ornament of the second and for the support of the third story.
And it was covered with cedar above the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. On the second floor were three rows of pillars, fifteen in a row, which made forty five, that stood to east, north, and south; and upon these pillars beams, which were the floor of the third story, over which was a roof of cedar wood.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְסָפֻ֣ןand [it was] paneled

    vesafunH5603 →6 times

  • בָּאֶ֗רֶזwith <the> cedar

    baerezH730 →73 times

  • מִמַּ֙עַל֙from above

    mimaalH4605 →140 times

  • עַל־above

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַצְּלָעֹת֙the side-chambers

    hatzelaotH6763 →40 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עַל־[were] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָֽעַמּוּדִ֔יםthe pillars

    haamudimH5982 →111 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֖יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑הand five

    vachamishahH2568 →343 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֥הfif-

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • עָשָׂ֖רteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • הַטּֽוּר׃the row

    haturH2905 →26 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:5

    Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:16

      He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

    • 1 Kings 6:19–21

      Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

    • Psalms 28:2

      Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

    • 2 Chronicles 5:9

      The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

    • 2 Chronicles 4:20

      the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
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This page draws on F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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