The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 7:12 in context
1 Kings 7:9–15
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All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
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The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
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Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
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The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house.
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King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
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He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to work all works in bronze. He came to King Solomon and performed all his work.
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For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.
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