1 Kings 6:18

What does 1 Kings 6:18 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Kings 6:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And the cedar for the house within <FI>is<Fi> carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole <FI>is<Fi> cedar, there is not a stone seen.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Context

v.17And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.

v.18This passage

v.19And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Kings 7:24

    And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

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