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1 Kings 6:18

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The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 6

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.11.1 · Written before 735.

We have said of cedarwood that it betokened the unsurpassable beauty of the virtues. Now the entire house is covered inside with this wood when the hearts of the righteous begin to shine with nothing but the love of good works, and the house has …

This site's exposition

built the house, and finished it

on 1 Kings 6:14-22

The oracle Solomon builds within the house is a perfect cube, twenty cubits in length, breadth and height, overlaid inside with pure gold along with the altar of cedar standing before it. Commentators have long set that cube beside the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21:16, the only other cube given equal length, breadth and height in Scripture, reading the innermost room where God dwelt with Israel as a small pattern of where God will dwell with his people at the end. Between the cube and the outer walls the whole house is overlaid with gold, floor to ceiling, until Solomon had finished all the house.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the cedar of the house within,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Knops and open flowers - Rather, “gourds and opening flower-buds.” Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural ornaments. They abound in the architecture of Egypt and Persia. In that of Assyria they occur more sparingly.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees. The whole interior was overlaid with gold, so that neither wood nor stone was seen; nothing met the eye but pure gold, either plain or richly chased.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֶ֤רֶזand cedar

    veerezH730 →73 times

  • אֶל־[was] to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַבַּ֙יִת֙the house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • פְּנִ֔ימָהwithin

    penimahH6441 →13 times

  • מִקְלַ֣עַתcarving of

    miklaatH4734 →4 times

  • פְּקָעִ֔יםgourds

    pekaimH6497 →3 times

  • וּפְטוּרֵ֖יand spread out [things] of

    ufetureiH6362 →9 times

  • צִצִּ֑יםflowers

    tzitzimH6731 →15 times

  • הַכֹּ֣ל<the> everything

    hakolH3605 →5413 times

  • אֶ֔רֶז[was] cedar

    ʾerezH730 →73 times

  • אֵ֥יןnot

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • אֶ֖בֶןstone

    ʾevenH68 →273 times

  • נִרְאָֽה׃[was] visible

    nirahH7200 →1300 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 74:6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.5 works1 Kings 7:24Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.4 works1 Kings 7:19And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.2 works1 Kings 6:29Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.2 works2 Chronicles 4:21the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;2 worksExodus 25:31Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 7:26It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.2 works1 Kings 6:32The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.2 works

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:24

    Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 4:3

      Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

    • Exodus 37:17–22

      Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

    • Exodus 25:31–36

      Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 6 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.11.1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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