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1 Kings 6:36 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 36. 36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Doors and the inner court complete the approaches.”
Read It With
- 1 Kings 6:31–36
Read 1 Kings 6:36 with 6:31–36. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Describes the olivewood doorway into the inner sanctuary; defines the inner court by three stone courses and a cedar course.
Why It Needs Context
1 Kings 6:36 depends on 6:31–36; isolating “And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Doors and the inner court complete the approaches.”
Read 1 Kings 6:31–36 together
Why these verses belong together: Doors and the inner court complete the approaches is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 6:31–6:36.
Verse 31. 31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
Verse 32. 32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
Verse 33. 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
Verse 34. 34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
Verse 35. 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
Verse 36. 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Kings 6:31–36, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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