Thematic Bible: Representations of, on the


Thematic Bible



And the cedar of the house inside was carved with knobs and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

And he carved thereon cherubim and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

So also he made for the door of the temple posts of olive wood, a fourth part of the wall.


And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold: of hammered work shall the lampstand be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of the same one piece.

Three bowls made like almonds, with a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knob and a flower: so also the six branches that come out of the lampstand.

And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, the purest gold;


And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was shaped like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

And the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; and it received and held three thousand baths.