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The Temple’s Interior

1 Kings 6:18

In 10 translations

BSB
The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
KJV
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.knops: or, gourdsopen: Heb. openings of
WEB
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
ASV
And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
LSV
And the cedar for the house within [is] carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole [is] cedar, there is not a stone seen.
YLT
And the cedar for the house within [is] carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole [is] cedar, there is not a stone seen.
DBY
And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
DRC
And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.
GNV
And the cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and grauen with floures: all was cedar, so that no stone was seene.
JPS
And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֶ֤רֶז אֶל־הַבַּ֨יִת֙ פְּנִ֔ימָה מִקְלַ֣עַת פְּקָעִ֔ים וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים הַכֹּ֣ל אֶ֔רֶז אֵ֥ין אֶ֖בֶן נִרְאָֽה׃

Who and where

◆ Reign of Solomon◆ Construction of Solomon's Temple

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 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.

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