1 Kings 7:3 meaning and explanation

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

1 Kings 7:3, Berean Standard Bible

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This verse describes the ceiling of the House of the Forest of Lebanon, one of Solomon's palace buildings in Jerusalem, not the temple itself. The narrator is detailing the construction, and the cedar beams rested on the rows of pillars mentioned in verse 2, with forty-five beams arranged fifteen to a row.

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