King James Version
1 Kings 6:14 in the King James Version says “So Solomon built the house, and finished it.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So Solomon built the house, and finished it.”
1 Kings 6:14 · KJV
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. both: or, from the floor of the house unto the walls, etc
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and finished”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
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