1 Kings 7:7

Then he made a porch for the throne Better (with R.V.) -And he made the porch of the throne." As the pillars were the distinction of the former porch, so was the throne of this. On kings sitting in public to hear causes and give judgment, cf. 1 Kings 22:10; Psalms 122:5.

andit was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other Literally -from floor to floor." What is meant is that this was not an unenclosed porch like -the porch of pillars" mentioned previously, but that it was enclosed with cedar wood walls all round from the floor to the ceiling. If this can be the sense of the word -floor" in the second case, we must suppose the roof of the porch to be regarded as the floor of some upper room above it. But the word -floor" קרקע is not very unlike קורות -beams" and so some have suspected the scribe of having written the former instead of the latter in the second place. This would make all easy, but the other explanation is quite possible, and is accepted by Gesenius, though De Wette translates as in A.V.