Reference: Ceilings
Fausets
(1Ki 6:9; margin 1Ki 6:15; 7:3; Jer 22:14; 2Ch 3:5,9.) Cedar planks were applied to the beams crossing from wall to wall, with sunk panels edged with gold and carved or painted in patterns. The vermilion painting of the ceiling in Jehoiakim's palace was probably borrowed from Egypt.
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So Solomon built the temple building and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.
So Solomon built the temple building and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.
He built the walls of the house (the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies) within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the inside with wood, and the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
He built the walls of the house (the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies) within with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling. He covered the inside with wood, and the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
And it was covered with cedar above the side chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
And it was covered with cedar above the side chambers that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
Who says, I will build myself a wide house with large rooms, and he cuts himself out windows, and it is ceiled or paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.
Who says, I will build myself a wide house with large rooms, and he cuts himself out windows, and it is ceiled or paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.