1 Kings 6:35

He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

World English Bible

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 cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:26It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 4:21and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was purest gold;

Psalms 74:6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

Ezekiel 40:22Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches 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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