1 Kings 6:18
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New International Version (©1984)
The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

New American Standard Bible (©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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Gourds and flowers were carved into the cedar paneling inside the temple. Everything was [covered with] cedar. No 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.

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

Bible in Basic English
(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

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.

Darby Bible Translation
And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

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.

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; there was no stone seen.

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.

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

6:18 Cedar - Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.

King James Translators' Notes

knops: or, gourds

open: Heb. openings of

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:15-38 See what was typified by this temple. 1. Christ is the true Temple. In him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead; in him meet all God's spiritual Israel; through him we have access with confidence to God. 2. Every believer is a living temple, in whom the Spirit of God dwells, 1Co 3:16. This living temple is built upon Christ as its Foundation, and will be perfect in due time. 3. The gospel church is the mystical temple. It grows to a holy temple in the Lord, enriched and beautified with the gifts and graces of the Spirit. This temple is built firm, upon a Rock. 4. Heaven is the everlasting temple. There the church will be fixed. All that shall be stones in that building, must, in the present state of preparation, be fitted and made ready for it. Let sinners come to Jesus as the living Foundation, that they may be built on him, a part of this spiritual house, consecrated in body and soul to the glory of God.


1 Kings 7:24 Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. (NASB ©1995)

Buds Carved Carvings Cedar Cedar-Wood Colocynths Designs Flowers Form Gourds Half-Open House Inside Knobs Knops Open Openings Ornamented Shape Stone Temple Whole Within


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

knops. or, gourds.
Pekaim, `artificial knops,' in the shape of {colocynths} or wild gourds, as the word denotes. (See note on 2ki 4:39;) the full- blown flowers of which must have been very ornamental.

open flowers. or, openings of flowers

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