Cedar walls and cypress floor

Building the House of Yahweh · 1 Kings 6

Story guide: Workers fit cedar boards along the inner walls and lay cypress planks across the floor, covering the stone as the passage describes; the workers themselves are not described.

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14So Solomon built the house and finished it.

15He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling he covered them with wood on the inside, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

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