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1 Kings 6:9

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So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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  1. 1 Kings 6:14Rank 1 from verse 9
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    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

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    38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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1 Kings 6:9

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

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covered

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Had a covering placed or spread over; hidden, concealed, enclosed, overlaid, clothed, sheltered, or occupied over the surface or extent of something.

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beams

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Structural timbers laid across or upon parts of a building, gate, or chamber.

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8The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

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10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

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