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 he built the house, and finished it, - and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;
So he built the house, and finished it, - and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar;
and he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house, unto the cross-beams of the ceiling, he overlaid it with wood, on the inside, - and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.
and he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house, unto the cross-beams of the ceiling, he overlaid it with wood, on the inside, - and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.
and it was covered with cedar above upon the joists, that were on forty-five pillars, - fifteen in a row.
and it was covered with cedar above upon the joists, that were on forty-five pillars, - fifteen in a row.
Who saith - I will build me a roomy house, with spacious roof-chambers, - So he cutteth him open its windows, And it is covered in with cedar, And he painteth it with vermilion.
Who saith - I will build me a roomy house, with spacious roof-chambers, - So he cutteth him open its windows, And it is covered in with cedar, And he painteth it with vermilion.