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He made the hall of the throne where he would pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and it was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.[a] His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken as wife. All of these were of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw on all sides;[b] from the foundation up to the eaves and from the outside up to the great courtyard.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:7 Hebrew “floor,” but other ancient versions have “rafters”
  2. 1 Kings 7:9 Literally “on the inside and on the outside”