Topic
Ceiling
8 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 6:9Easton · Smith
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:15Easton · Smith
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
- 1 Kings 7:3Easton · Smith
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5Easton · Smith
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
- 2 Chronicles 3:9Easton · Smith
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- Jeremiah 22:14Easton · Smith
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
- 1 Kings 7:7Easton
¶ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
- Haggai 1:4Smith
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 9 references
The covering (1 Kings 7:3,7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems, and ivory. The ceilings of the temple and of Solomon’s palace are described 1 Kings 6:9, 15; 7:3; 2 Chr. 3:5,9.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 7 references
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.