And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

Ver. 3. Upon the beams.] Heb., Ribs: for beams are to a building what ribs are to a living creature. In Africa they make, if not beams, yet rafters for houses, of the whale's ribs.

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