Discovery Box1 Kings 6:10 
Context6:10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high 1 and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.
1 Kings 6:20
Context6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet 2 long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, 3 as well as the cedar altar. 4
1 Kings 7:3
Context7:3 The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:7
Context7:7 He also made a throne room, called “The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. 5 It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters. 6
1 Kings 10:27
Context10:27 The king made silver as plentiful 7 in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was 8 as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. 9
1 tn Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.
2 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).
3 tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).
4 tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”
5 tn Heb “and a porch for the throne, where he was making judicial decisions, the Porch of Judgment, he made.”
6 tc The Hebrew text reads, “from the floor to the floor.” The second occurrence of the term הַקַּרְקָע (haqqarqa’, “the floor”) is probably an error; one should emend to הַקּוֹרוֹת (haqqorot, “the rafters”). See 6:16.
7 tn The words “as plentiful” are added for clarification.
8 tn Heb “he made.”
9 tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”
