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 he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row.
It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row.
Who says, 'I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.'
Who says, 'I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.'