6:14 So Solomon finished building the temple. 12 6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters 13 of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.
1 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his hand.”
2 tn The Hebrew text reads, “by his mouth.”
3 sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.
4 sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.
5 tn Or “the porch of the temple.”
6 tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”
7 tn Heb “he built.”
8 sn The Palace of the Lebanon Forest. This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest.
9 tn Heb “one hundred cubits.”
10 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”
11 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
12 tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”
13 tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.