And he made the hall of the (A)throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and (B)it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.

And his house where he was to live, the other courtyard inward from the hall, was of this same workmanship. (C)He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, (D)whom Solomon had married.

All of these were made of valuable stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the [a]coping, and from the outside to the large courtyard.

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  1. 1 Kings 7:9 I.e., top sloping course of stone

He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge,(A) and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.[a](B) And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.(C)

All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.

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  1. 1 Kings 7:7 Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew floor