1 Kings 6:18
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.

New Revised Standard Version
The cedar within the house had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

knops.

2 Kings 4:39 And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found something like a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field, and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred them into the pot of pottage; for he knew not what it was.

;) the full- blown flowers of which must have been very ornamental.

open flowers.

Context
The Temple's Interior
17And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long. 18And 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.19And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:17
And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.

1 Kings 6:19
And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

1 Kings 7:24
And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.

Psalm 74:6
They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

1 Kings 6:17
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