1 Kings 7:12
Good News Translation
The palace court, the inner court of the Temple, and the entrance room of the Temple had walls with one layer of cedar beams for every three layers of cut stones.

New Revised Standard Version
The great court had three courses of dressed stone to one layer of cedar beams all around; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the vestibule of the house.

Contemporary English Version
The walls around the palace courtyard were made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams, just like the front porch and the inner courtyard of the temple.

New American Bible
The great court had three courses of hewn stones all around and a course of cedar beams. So also were the inner court of the house of the LORD and its porch.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

three rows

1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

the porch

John 10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

Acts 3:11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

Acts 5:12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

Context
Solomon Builds His Palace
11And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in like manner planks of cedar. 12And 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.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

1 Kings 7:6
And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch, and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.

1 Kings 7:11
And above there were costly stones of equal measure hewed, and in like manner planks of cedar.

2 Kings 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

1 Kings 7:11
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