John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 6:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, etc.] For as yet he had only built the stone walls of it without, but now he wainscotted it with cedar boards: and not only them, but both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling; or from “the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling”; that is, from the floor, including that, to the walls on each side, reaching up to the ceiling, he covered [them] on the inside with wood: of one sort or another, cedar or fir, or both: particularly he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir: which Hiram sent him, (<110508>1 Kings 5:8,10); which is differently interpreted; by Josephus cypress; by others, as the Tigurine version, pine tree wood; it is very probable it was of the cedar kind, and not the floor only, but the ceiling also, (<140305>2 Chronicles 3:5).

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