1 Kings 6:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• 1 Kings 6:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Knops and open flowers - Rather, “gourds and opening flower-buds.” Imitations of the vegetable world are among the earliest of architectural ornaments. They abound in the architecture of Egypt an...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Description of Solomon's Temple. The Temple area is on the eastern hill of Jerusalem, which overlooks the valley of the Kidron, with the Mount of Olives on the opposite side. It was probably not th...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  no stone seen. Figure of speech Pleonasm. App-6. Words not necessary for grammar, or sense; but used to emphasize the completeness of our covering by Christ's merits. Compare Ephesians 1:6 ; Co...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Construction of the Temple In shape the Temple was a rectangular hall 60 x 20 x 30 cubits (a cubit being about 18 inches). On its E. face it had a porch (forming an entrance) which extended ac...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 "And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded Ark of God, till then in tents Wan...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Breaking Three Commandments 1 Kings 21:1-29 ; 1 Kings 1:1-53 ; 1 Kings 2:1-46 ; 1 Kings 3:1-28 ; 1 Kings 4:1-34 ; 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 ; 1 Kings 8:1-66 ; 1 Ki...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It wa...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (15) В¶ 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...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the cedar of the house within ,.... With which the inside of the place was lined: [was] carved with knops ; of an oval form; so the Targum says, they had the appearance of eggs; and Ben Gersom...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the cedar of the house within [was] carved with knops and open flowers: all [was] cedar; there was no stone seen. Ver. 18. Carved with knops and open flowers. ] To show the multifarious flouri...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The temple before it The part of the house which was before the most holy place. In the Hebrew the words are, before my face , that is, before the place where the divine glory appeared. Was forty...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vs.1-38) The date of the beginning of the temple is given specifically in verse 1 as the 480th year after Israel had left Egypt, which was the 4th year of Solomon's r...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All was cedar, i.e. all the house was covered with cedar. Quest. How was this true, when it was covered with fir, 2 Chronicles 3:5 ? Answ. 1. It was done with cedar and fir; of which See...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 6:1 . Began to build the house of the Lord —The chronological year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 6:1 . In the four hundred and eightieth year. The Hebrew, the Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some difficulties occur. Vide Poli in locum. The following...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  No stone seen. The temple of God flawless “All was cedar; there was no stone seen.” Take stone in the type for that which was really so, and in the antitype for that which is so mystically, and...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S TEMPLE .—The preparations for the building of the Temple having been related in the preceding chapter, the historian now proceeds to describe the edifice. He begins his n...

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Ornamentation of the Temple

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 6:18

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• 1 Kings 6:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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