And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knobs and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
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 and Persia. In that of Assyria they occur more sparingly.
6:18 Cedar - Cedar is here named, not to exclude all other wood, but stone only; as the following words shew.