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Solomon’s Palace Complex

Solomon completed his entire palace complex after thirteen years of construction.(A) He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon.(B) It was forty-five metres[a] long, twenty-three metres[b] wide, and thirteen and a half metres[c] high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars. It was panelled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on forty-five pillars, fifteen per row.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:2 Lit 100 cubits
  2. 7:2 Lit 50 cubits, also in v. 6
  3. 7:2 Lit 30 cubits, also in vv. 6,23