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13 I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

14 So Solomon finished building the temple.[a] 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[b] of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:14 tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”
  2. 1 Kings 6:15 tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.