Quotes about Architecture
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 6:36
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:2
The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
- 1 Kings 7:3
All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.
- 1 Kings 7:5
Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
- 1 Kings 7:6
And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
- 1 Kings 7:8
Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:11
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- 1 Kings 7:16
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
- 1 Kings 7:19
There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
- 1 Kings 7:32
As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
- 1 Kings 9:24
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4