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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/1_kings/6.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/1_kings/6.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />And he built the inner courtyard of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_kings/6.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The walls of the inner courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_kings/6.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_kings/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_kings/6.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_kings/6.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_kings/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_kings/6.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />He built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_kings/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_kings/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_kings/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_kings/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_kings/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_kings/6.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_kings/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The inner courtyard of the temple had walls made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_kings/6.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_kings/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He built the inner courtyard with three courses of finished stones and a course of finished cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_kings/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />An inner court was built in front of the Temple, enclosed with walls which had one layer of cedar beams for every three layers of stone. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_kings/6.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />He constructed the inner court with three rows of precut stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_kings/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_kings/6.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_kings/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_kings/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_kings/6.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_kings/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And he builds the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_kings/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And he buildeth the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_kings/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And he will build the enclosure of the insides three rows of cuttings, and a row of cuttings of cedars.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_kings/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_kings/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And he built the inner atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_kings/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He walled off the inner court with three courses of hewn stones and one course of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_kings/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/1_kings/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he built the inner courtyard three rows of cut stone and a row of saplings of cedar.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/1_kings/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/1_kings/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn stones, and a row of wrought cedar round about, and he made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/6-36.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xx9A0AxPaoQ?start=2274" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_kings/6.htm">The Courtyard</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">36</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1129.htm" title="1129: way·yi·ḇen (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To build. A primitive root; to build.">Solomon built</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6442.htm" title="6442: hap·pə·nî·mîṯ (Art:: Adj-fs) -- Inner. From paniym; interior.">the inner</a> <a href="/hebrew/2691.htm" title="2691: he·ḥā·ṣêr (Art:: N-cs) -- A yard, a hamlet.">courtyard</a> <a href="/hebrew/7969.htm" title="7969: šə·lō·šāh (Number-ms) -- A three, triad. Or shalosh; masculine shlowshah; or shloshah; a primitive number; three; occasionally third, or Thrice.">with three</a> <a href="/hebrew/2905.htm" title="2905: ṭū·rê (N-mpc) -- A row. From an unused root meaning to range in a regular manner; a row; hence, a wall.">rows</a> <a href="/hebrew/1496.htm" title="1496: ḡā·zîṯ (N-fs) -- A cutting, hewing. From gazah; something cut, i.e. Dressed stone.">of dressed stone</a> <a href="/hebrew/2905.htm" title="2905: wə·ṭūr (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- A row. From an unused root meaning to range in a regular manner; a row; hence, a wall.">and one row</a> <a href="/hebrew/730.htm" title="730: ’ă·rā·zîm (N-mp) -- A cedar. From 'araz; a cedar tree.">of trimmed cedar</a> <a href="/hebrew/3773.htm" title="3773: kə·ru·ṯōṯ (N-fpc) -- Something cut, a hewn timber. Passive participle feminine of karath; something cut, i.e. A hewn timber.">beams.</a> </span><span class="reftext">37</span>The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign, in the month of Ziv.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">1 Kings 7:12</a></span><br />The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/4-9.htm">2 Chronicles 4:9</a></span><br />He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/41-8.htm">Ezekiel 41:8-9</a></span><br />I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits. / The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">2 Chronicles 3:1-2</a></span><br />Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. / Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/6-7.htm">1 Kings 6:7</a></span><br />The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/6-38.htm">1 Kings 6:38</a></span><br />In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/7-1.htm">1 Kings 7:1-2</a></span><br />Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace. / He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/8-64.htm">1 Kings 8:64</a></span><br />On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/6-13.htm">2 Chronicles 6:13</a></span><br />Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/7-7.htm">2 Chronicles 7:7</a></span><br />Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar he had made could not hold all these offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/27-9.htm">Exodus 27:9-18</a></span><br />You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side, / with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts. / Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/38-9.htm">Exodus 38:9-20</a></span><br />Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen, / with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. / The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/40-17.htm">Ezekiel 40:17-19</a></span><br />Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement, / which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement. / Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/42-15.htm">Ezekiel 42:15-20</a></span><br />Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around: / With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long. / He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-12.htm">Matthew 21:12-13</a></span><br />Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. / And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.</p><p class="hdg">the inner</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/27-9.htm">Exodus 27:9-19</a></b></br> And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward <i>there shall be</i> hangings for the court <i>of</i> fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/38-9.htm">Exodus 38:9-20</a></b></br> And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court <i>were of</i> fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/4-9.htm">2 Chronicles 4:9</a></b></br> Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_kings/6-9.htm">Beams</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-16.htm">Boards</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-16.htm">Buildeth</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-16.htm">Built</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-20.htm">Cedar</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Cedar-Beams</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-20.htm">Cedar-Wood</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-18.htm">Course</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm">Courses</a> <a href="/2_samuel/17-18.htm">Court</a> <a href="/2_samuel/17-18.htm">Courtyard</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-32.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-7.htm">Dressed</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm">Hewed</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm">Hewn</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-31.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/2_samuel/10-17.htm">Lines</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-8.htm">Row</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-9.htm">Rows</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-20.htm">Space</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-17.htm">Squared</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-18.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-7.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-16.htm">Three</a> <a href="/2_samuel/19-24.htm">Trimmed</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm">Walled</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-35.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">Beams</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Boards</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-38.htm">Buildeth</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-1.htm">Built</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">Cedar</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Cedar-Beams</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-11.htm">Cedar-Wood</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Course</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Courses</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-8.htm">Court</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Courtyard</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Dressed</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Hewed</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Hewn</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Inner</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm">Lines</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-3.htm">Row</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm">Rows</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-36.htm">Space</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-5.htm">Squared</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-4.htm">Three</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Trimmed</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm">Walled</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-8.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">1 Kings 6</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-1.htm">The building of Solomon's temple</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-5.htm">The chambers thereof</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-11.htm">God's promise unto it</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-15.htm">The ceiling and adorning of it</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-23.htm">The cherubim</a></span><br><span class="reftext">31. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-31.htm">The doors</a></span><br><span class="reftext">36. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-36.htm">The court</a></span><br><span class="reftext">37. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/6-37.htm">The time of building it</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The inner courtyard was a significant part of the temple complex, serving as a space for worship and sacrifices. It reflects the importance of order and reverence in worship practices, as seen throughout the Old Testament. The construction of the temple is a fulfillment of God's promise to David in <a href="/2_samuel/7-12.htm">2 Samuel 7:12-13</a>, where God assures David that his son will build a house for His name.<p><b>with three rows of dressed stone</b><br>The use of dressed stone indicates the high quality and durability of the materials used in the temple's construction. This choice of material reflects the grandeur and permanence intended for the house of God. Dressed stone, which is carefully cut and finished, symbolizes the precision and care in worship and service to God. The number three often signifies completeness or divine perfection in biblical numerology, suggesting the thoroughness of Solomon's work.<p><b>and one row of trimmed cedar beams</b><br>Cedar was a valuable and prestigious material, often associated with strength and longevity. The use of cedar beams in the temple construction is significant, as cedar was imported from Lebanon, indicating the international cooperation and resources Solomon utilized. This also points to the fulfillment of the agreement between Solomon and Hiram, king of Tyre, as described in <a href="/1_kings/5-8.htm">1 Kings 5:8-10</a>. The cedar beams add a layer of beauty and fragrance, enhancing the temple's splendor and symbolizing the richness of God's presence.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>The king of Israel who was renowned for his wisdom and tasked with building the temple in Jerusalem, fulfilling his father David's desire.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_temple.htm">The Temple</a></b><br>The holy place in Jerusalem where the Israelites worshiped God, symbolizing God's presence among His people.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/inner_courtyard.htm">Inner Courtyard</a></b><br>A specific area within the temple complex, constructed with precision and care, reflecting the sacredness of the space.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/d/dressed_stone.htm">Dressed Stone</a></b><br>Carefully cut and prepared stones used in the construction, indicating the quality and permanence of the temple.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/cedar_beams.htm">Cedar Beams</a></b><br>High-quality wood from Lebanon, used for its durability and beauty, signifying the temple's grandeur.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_quality_in_worship.htm">The Importance of Quality in Worship</a></b><br>The use of dressed stone and cedar beams in the temple construction underscores the importance of offering our best to God in worship and service.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_the_temple.htm">Symbolism of the Temple</a></b><br>The temple serves as a symbol of God's presence and holiness. As believers, we are called to be living temples, reflecting God's glory in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/attention_to_detail_in_god's_work.htm">Attention to Detail in God's Work</a></b><br>The meticulous construction of the temple reminds us that God values attention to detail and excellence in the work we do for His kingdom.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/continuity_of_god's_plan.htm">Continuity of God's Plan</a></b><br>The temple's construction is part of God's unfolding plan, connecting the past (tabernacle) with the future (Christ and the Church), showing His faithfulness through generations.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_foundations.htm">Spiritual Foundations</a></b><br>Just as the temple was built on solid foundations, our faith should be grounded in the truth of God's Word, ensuring stability and growth in our spiritual lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_kings_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Kings 6</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_differ_solomon's_temple_styles.htm">Why do biblical descriptions of Solomon's temple differ from contemporary architectural styles?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_60_queens_fit_solomon's_700_wives.htm">(Song of Solomon 6:8) How can sixty queens and eighty concubines align with Solomon's reputed 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_1_kings_6_14-18's_decor_plausible.htm">In 1 Kings 6:14-18, how plausible is it to have such elaborate cedar and gold paneling without any significant historical or external documentation?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_cedar_shipments_in_1_kings.htm">Is there archaeological evidence for the massive cedar shipments from Lebanon described in 1 Kings 5:6-10?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_kings/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(36) <span class= "bld">The inner court</span> (probably the "higher court" of <a href="/jeremiah/35-10.htm" title="But we have dwelled in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.">Jeremiah 35:10</a>) is described as built round the Temple proper, evidently corresponding to the outer court of the Tabernacle. As this was (see <a href="/context/exodus/27-9.htm" title="And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:">Exodus 27:9-13</a>) 50 cubits by 100, it may be inferred, that by a duplication similar to that of all dimensions of the Temple itself, Solomon's Court was 100 cubits (or 150 feet) by 200 cubits (or 300 feet), covering a little more than an acre. The verse has been interpreted in two ways: either that the floor of the court was raised by three courses of stone, covered with a planking of cedar, or (as Josephus understands it) enclosed by a wall of three courses of stone, with a coping of cedar wood. The latter seems more probable. For in this court stood the altar of burnt offering and the laver, and all sacrifices went on, and this could hardly have been done on a wooden pavement; and besides this we observe that the whole arrangement is (<a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm" title="And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.">1Kings 7:12</a>) compared with that of the great outer court of the palace where the wooden pavement would be still more unsuitable. It was what was called afterwards the "Court of the Priests," and in it (see <a href="/ezekiel/40-45.htm" title="And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.">Ezekiel 40:45</a>) appear to have been chambers for the priests.<p>The mention of the "inner court" suggests that there was an outer court also. We have in <a href="/2_kings/21-5.htm" title="And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.">2Kings 21:5</a>; <a href="/2_kings/23-12.htm" title="And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and broke them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.">2Kings 23:12</a>, a reference to the "two courts" of the Temple, and in <a href="/ezekiel/40-17.htm" title="Then brought he me into the outward court, and, see, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement.">Ezekiel 40:17</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/42-1.htm" title="Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.">Ezekiel 42:1</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/42-8.htm" title="For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, see, before the temple were an hundred cubits.">Ezekiel 42:8</a>, a mention of the "outward" or "utter court." Josephus (Antt. viii. 3, ? 3) declares that Solomon built beyond the inner court a great quadrangle, erected for it great and broad cloisters, and closed it with golden doors, into which all could enter, "being pure and observant of the laws." Even beyond this he indicates, though in rather vague and rhetorical language, an extension of the Temple area, as made by Solomon's great substructures, forming a court less perfectly enclosed, like the Court of the Gentiles in the later Temple. Of these outer courts and cloisters the tradition remained in the assignment of the title of "Solomon's Porch" to the eastern cloister of the later Temple. It has been thought that in this outer court were planted trees (in spite of the prohibition of <a href="/deuteronomy/16-21.htm" title="You shall not plant you a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make you.">Deuteronomy 16:21</a>); and this may have been the case, till the association of idol worship with them made these seem to be unfit for the House of the Lord. But the passages usually quoted to support this view are from the Psalms (<a href="/psalms/52-8.htm" title="But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.">Psalm 52:8</a>; <a href="/psalms/92-13.htm" title="Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.">Psalm 92:13</a>), of which the former certainly refers to the Tabernacle, and the latter may do so. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_kings/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 36.</span> - The description of the buildings concludes with a brief reference to the <span class="accented">enceinte</span> or court. <span class="cmt_word">And he built the inner court</span> [The mention of an <span class="accented">inner</span> court, called in <a href="/2_chronicles/4-9.htm">2 Chronicles 4:9</a> the "court of the priests," presupposes, of course, the existence of an <span class="accented">outer</span> court. Our author does not mention this, but the chronicler does, under the name of "the great court." In <a href="/jeremiah/36-10.htm">Jeremiah 36:10</a>, the former is called the "higher court," because it occupied a higher level] <span class="cmt_word">with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar beams.</span> [These, it is thought, formed the enclosing <span class="accented">wall</span> of the court (the LXX. adds <span class="greek">κυκλόθεν</span>). The cedar beams were instead of coping stones. It has been supposed, however (J.D. Michaelis), that these three rows of stone, boarded with cedar, formed the <span class="accented">pavement of</span> the court. But the question at once suggests itself, Why pile three rows of stones one upon another merely to form a pavement, and why hew and shape them if they were to be concealed beneath a stratum of wood? It is a fair inference from <a href="/2_chronicles/7-3.htm">2 Chronicles 7:3</a>, that the wall was low enough to permit men to look over it. Fergusson, on the contrary, argues that it must have been <span class="accented">twice</span> the height of the enclosure of the tabernacle, which would give us an elevation of ten cubits (<a href="/exodus/27-18.htm">Exodus 27:18</a>). It is worth suggesting, however, whether, the inner court being raised above the outer, which surrounded it, these stones may not have formed the retaining wall or sides of the platform. As the outer court had gates (<a href="/2_kings/11-6.htm">2 Kings 11:6</a>; <a href="/2_kings/12-9.htm">2 Kings 12:9</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/4-9.htm">2 Chronicles 4:9</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/23-5.htm">2 Chronicles 23:5</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/24-8.htm">2 Chronicles 24:8</a>), it also must have had walls. From <a href="/2_kings/23-11.htm">2 Kings 23:11</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/35-2.htm">Jeremiah 35:2</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/36-10.htm">Jeremiah 36:10</a>, we gather that there were various chambers in the forecourt. Such were certainly contemplated by David (<a href="/1_chronicles/28-12.htm">1 Chronicles 28:12</a>); but it is not recorded that Solomon built them. Nor have we any warrant, except the bare assertion of Josephus, for the belief that he built a colonnade or cloister on the east side, such as was known to later ages by the name of "Solomon's Porch" (<a href="/john/10-23.htm">John 10:23</a>; <a href="/acts/3-11.htm">Acts 3:11</a>; <a href="/acts/5-12.htm">Acts 5:12</a>). As to the dimensions of these spaces, we are left to conjecture. If, as in everything else, the dimensions of the tabernacle were doubled, then the court of the priests would measure 200 cubits from east to west, and 100 cubits from north to south. It should be stated, however, that in the temple of Ezekiel, the proportions of which, in the present instance, may well he historical, both courts are represented as perfect squares. Rawlinson inadvertently puts down the length (along the side of temple) at 100 cubits, and the breadth (ends of temple) at 200. The outer court would probably be twice as large as the inner, <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, 400 x 200 cubits. But all this is necessarily uncertain.] <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_kings/6-36.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">[Solomon] built</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּ֙בֶן֙</span> <span class="translit">(way·yi·ḇen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1129.htm">Strong's 1129: </a> </span><span class="str2">To build</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the inner</span><br /><span class="heb">הַפְּנִימִ֔ית</span> <span class="translit">(hap·pə·nî·mîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6442.htm">Strong's 6442: </a> </span><span class="str2">Interior</span><br /><br /><span class="word">courtyard</span><br /><span class="heb">הֶחָצֵ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(he·ḥā·ṣêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2691.htm">Strong's 2691: </a> </span><span class="str2">A yard, a hamlet</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with three</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁלֹשָׁ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(šə·lō·šāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7969.htm">Strong's 7969: </a> </span><span class="str2">Three, third, thrice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">rows</span><br /><span class="heb">טוּרֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ṭū·rê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2905.htm">Strong's 2905: </a> </span><span class="str2">A row, a wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of dressed stone</span><br /><span class="heb">גָזִ֑ית</span> <span class="translit">(ḡā·zîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1496.htm">Strong's 1496: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something cut, dressed stone</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and one row</span><br /><span class="heb">וְט֖וּר</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṭūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2905.htm">Strong's 2905: </a> </span><span class="str2">A row, a wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of trimmed cedar</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲרָזִֽים׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·rā·zîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_730.htm">Strong's 730: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cedar tree</span><br /><br /><span class="word">beams.</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּרֻתֹ֥ת</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ru·ṯōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3773.htm">Strong's 3773: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something cut, a hewn timber</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_kings/6-36.htm">1 Kings 6:36 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_kings/6-36.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 6:36 He built the inner court with three (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_kings/6-35.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 6:35"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6:35" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_kings/6-37.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 6:37"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6:37" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>