1 Kings 6:35

And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers. And he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

In Context

34and two doors of fir-wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:26And it was a handbreadth thick. And the brim of it was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 4:21and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold,

Psalms 74:6And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.

Ezekiel 40:22And the windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were according to the measure of the gate whose view is toward the east. And they went up to it by seven steps, and the arches of it were before them.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:16-38

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar of the… Read the whole commentary →

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