1 Kings 6:18

(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

In Context

17And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

19And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:24And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

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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