The covering a roof of a room with wood, formed into patterns: some with fir-trees as 2Ch 3:5, and others with cedar and painted. 1Ki 6:15; Jer 22:14; Eze 41:16; Hag 1:4.
and sealed the walls of the house within, with ribs of Cedar tree: even from the pavement unto the roof did he seal it within, and boarded the floor of the house with planks of fir.
And the great house he sealed with fir tree, and overlaid it with good gold, and graved thereto palm trees and chains.
He thinketh in himself, 'I will build me a wide house, and gorgeous parlors.' He causeth windows to be hewn therein, and the ceilings and joists maketh he of Cedar, and painteth them with Sinoper.
The innermore temple, the porch of the fore court, the side posts, these three had side windows, and pillars round about over against the posts, from the ground up to the windows. The windows themselves were sealed over with boards:
"Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?