“He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 6 contains 38 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.