1 Kings 6:10

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“He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.”

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BSBPD

“He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits <FI>is<Fi> its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Kings 6:10 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 11:2But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
  2. 1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
  3. Jeremiah 35:2“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”
  4. Ezekiel 41:6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

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