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  • 1 Kings 6:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.

  • 1 Kings 6:9

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    King James Version (KJV):
    So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

  • 1 Kings 6:8

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The 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.

  • 1 Kings 6:7

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

  • 1 Kings 6:6

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kings 6:5

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

  • 1 Kings 6:4

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

  • 1 Kings 6:3

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.

  • 1 Kings 6:2

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

  • 1 Kings 6:1

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.