1 Kings 6:36 - Printer Friendly

ESV: He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.

NIV: And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.

NASB: And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

CSB: He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

NLT: The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.

KJV: And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

NKJV: And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

This was originally the first half of a combined text. First Kings records the end of David's reign and the rule of Solomon. After this, the kingdom is split in two. The northern nation of Israel no longer submits to the king of the southern nation, called Judah. The prophet Elijah first appears in this book. The kings mostly fail to honor the Lord. They participate in idolatry and other sins. This will eventually result in their conquest and exile, as depicted throughout the books of Chronicles.

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