1 Kings 6:36
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.

Contemporary English Version
The inner courtyard of the temple had walls made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams.

New American Bible
He walled off the inner court with three courses of hewn stones and one course of cedar beams.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

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Exodus 27:9-19 Thou shalt make also the court of the tabernacle, in the south side whereof southward there shall be hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits long for one side. . . .

Exodus 38:9-20 He made also the court, in the south side whereof were hangings of fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits. . . .

2 Chronicles 4:9 He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

2 Chronicles 7:7 Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple of the Lord: for he offered there the holocausts, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar, which he had made, could not hold the holocausts and the sacrifices and the fat:

Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple, cast out and measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city they shall tread under foot, two and forty months:

Context
The Courtyard
36And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.37In the fourth year was the house of the Lord founded, in the month Zio:…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:35
And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.

1 Kings 7:12
And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.

2 Chronicles 4:9
He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

Ezra 6:4
Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.

Jeremiah 36:10
And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.

1 Kings 6:35
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