Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen. New Living Translation Cedar paneling completely covered the stone walls throughout the Temple, and the paneling was decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers. English Standard Version The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen. Berean Standard Bible The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. King James Bible And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. New King James Version The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen. New American Standard Bible There was cedar inside the house, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; everything was cedar, there was no stone visible. NASB 1995 There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. NASB 1977 And there was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. Legacy Standard Bible And there was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen. Amplified Bible The cedar on the house within had wood carvings in the shape of gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was visible. Christian Standard Bible The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. Holman Christian Standard Bible The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. American Standard Version And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And cedar was covering the house from within, and it was lattice work and carved ornaments, and lilies and all was of cedar, and a stone was not seen in it. Contemporary English Version The inside walls were lined with cedar to hide the stones, and the cedar was decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers. Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. GOD'S WORD® Translation Gourds and flowers were carved into the cedar paneling inside the temple. Everything was [covered with] cedar. No stone could be seen. Good News Translation The cedar panels were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers; the whole interior was covered with cedar, so that the stones of the walls could not be seen. International Standard Version Cedar carvings in the form of gourds and blooming flowers covered the entire interior of the Temple so that no stone could be seen. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. Literal Standard Version 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. Majority Standard Bible The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. New American Bible The cedar in the interior of the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was of cedar, and no stone was to be seen. NET Bible The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. New Revised Standard Version The cedar within the house had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen. New Heart English Bible And the inside of the house was cedar, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. Webster's Bible Translation And the cedar of the house within was carved with knobs and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. World English Bible There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible. Young's Literal Translation 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Temple's Interior…17And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long. 18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. 19Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.… Cross References 1 Kings 6:17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long. 1 Kings 6:19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there. 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. Psalm 74:6 and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. Treasury of Scripture And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. knops. 2 Kings 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. open flowers. Jump to Previous Buds Carved Carvings Cedar Cedar-Wood Colocynths Designs Flowers Form Gourds Half-Open House Inside Knobs Knops Open Openings Ornamented Shape Stone Temple Whole WithinJump to Next Buds Carved Carvings Cedar Cedar-Wood Colocynths Designs Flowers Form Gourds Half-Open House Inside Knobs Knops Open Openings Ornamented Shape Stone Temple Whole Within1 Kings 6 1. The building of Solomon's temple5. The chambers thereof 11. God's promise unto it 15. The ceiling and adorning of it 23. The cherubim 31. The doors 36. The court 37. The time of building it Verse 18. - And the cedar of the house within [lit. cedar (wood) was placed against the house inside] was carved with knops [Heb. sculpture of gourds. The sculpture is in apposition to cedar. The authorities are divided as to the kind of sculpture intended. Keil thinks they were bassi relievi; Bahr contends that, like those of the Egyptian monuments, they were sunken, פְּקָעִים is generally assumed to be synonymous with פְּקֻעֹת "squirting cucumbers" (2 Kings 4:39, note). Bahr, however, justly observes that a deadly fruit, such as this is described to have been, was hardly likely to be employed in the decoration of the sanctuary, and he would render the word "buds." Keil thinks the gourds were oval ornaments, something like the wild gourd, which ran in rows along the walls. See the illustration, "Slab from Kouyunjik," Dict. Bib. 2 p. 49] and open flowers [lit. burstings of flowers. These words again are very variously interpreted. Thenius: festoons of flowers; Keil: open flower buds; Gesen.: expanded flowers]: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. [Really, the cedar was no more seen than the stone, for this in turn was overlaid with gold (ver. 22.)] Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The cedarוְאֶ֤רֶז (wə·’e·rez) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 730: A cedar tree paneling inside פְּנִ֔ימָה (pə·nî·māh) Adverb Strong's 6441: Toward the side or inside, within the temple הַבַּ֙יִת֙ (hab·ba·yiṯ) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1004: A house was carved מִקְלַ֣עַת (miq·la·‘aṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 4734: A sculpture with gourds פְּקָעִ֔ים (pə·qā·‘îm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6497: Gourd (shaped) ornaments and open וּפְטוּרֵ֖י (ū·p̄ə·ṭū·rê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct Strong's 6358: Opened, a bud flowers. צִצִּ֑ים (ṣiṣ·ṣîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6731: Glistening, a burnished plate, a flower, a wing Everything הַכֹּ֣ל (hak·kōl) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every was cedar; אֶ֔רֶז (’e·rez) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 730: A cedar tree not אֵ֥ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle a stone אֶ֖בֶן (’e·ḇen) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 68: A stone could be seen. נִרְאָֽה׃ (nir·’āh) Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 7200: To see Links 1 Kings 6:18 NIV1 Kings 6:18 NLT 1 Kings 6:18 ESV 1 Kings 6:18 NASB 1 Kings 6:18 KJV 1 Kings 6:18 BibleApps.com 1 Kings 6:18 Biblia Paralela 1 Kings 6:18 Chinese Bible 1 Kings 6:18 French Bible 1 Kings 6:18 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Kings 6:18 There was cedar on the house within (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) |