1 Kings 6:18

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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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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The Biblical Illustrator

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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.

¹⁸ And the cedar of the house within was carved with knopsc and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 6:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Kings 6:18