1 Kings 6:35

And he carved thereon cherubim, and palm-trees and opening flowers: and he overlaid them with gold fitting upon the carved work.

Leeser Tanakh

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 one door having two leaves which were folding, and the other door having two leaves which were folding.

36And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and one row of cedar beams.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:26And its thickness was a hand's breadth, and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, with lily-buds: it could contain two thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 4:21And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, were of gold, the purest of gold;

Psalms 74:6And now they hew in pieces the carved work thereof altogether with hatchets and hammers.

Ezekiel 40:22And its windows, and its porches, and their palm-shaped capitals, were after the measure of the gate that looked in an eastern direction: and by seven steps did they go up unto it, and to its porches which 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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