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Thursday, August 14th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Good News Translation

1 Kings 6:35

and decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers, which were evenly covered with gold.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Carving;   Cherubim;   Door;   Gold;   Palm Tree;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cherubim;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cherubim;   Flowers;   Palm-Tree, the;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Flowers;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Upright, Uprightness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carve;   Gate;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Palmtree;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Engrave;   Palms;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Cherubim;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Flowers;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Carved Work;   Cherub, Cherubim;   Palm, Palm Tree,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dwelling;   Gate;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Carving;   Gate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carving;   Cherubim (1);   Palm Tree;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold applied evenly over the carving.
Hebrew Names Version
He carved [thereon] Keruvim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
King James Version
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
English Standard Version
On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
New Century Version
The doors were covered with pictures of creatures with wings, as well as palm trees and flowers. All of the carvings were covered with gold, which was evenly spread over them.
New English Translation
He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.
Amplified Bible
He carved cherubim, palm-shaped decorations, and open flowers on the doors, and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
New American Standard Bible
He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold plated on the carved work.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he graued Cherubims, & palme trees, and carued floures and couered the carued worke with golde, finely wrought.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work.
Contemporary English Version
The doors were covered with gold and were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.
Complete Jewish Bible
On them he carved k'ruvim, palm trees and open flowers, overlaying them with gold fitted to the carved work.
Darby Translation
And he carved on them cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers; and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work.
Easy-to-Read Version
They carved pictures of Cherub angels, palm trees, and flowers on the doors. Then they covered them with gold.
George Lamsa Translation
And he carved on them cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and covered them with gold overlaid upon the carved work.
Lexham English Bible
He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.
Literal Translation
And he carved cherubs, and palm trees, and spread out flowers, and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and made carued worke therof, palme trees and floures, right as it was appoynted.
American Standard Version
And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
Bible in Basic English
These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he graued thereon Cherubs, paulme trees, & carued flowres: and couered the carued worke with golde finelie wrought.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
King James Version (1611)
And he carued thereon Cherubims, and palme trees, and open flowers: and couered them with gold, fitted vpon the carued worke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces.
English Revised Version
And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers: and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
Berean Standard Bible
And he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he grauyde cherubyns, and palmes, and grauyngis apperynge greetli; and he hilide alle thingis with goldun platis, bi square werk at reule.
Young's Literal Translation
And he hath carved cherubs, and palms, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with straightened gold the graved work.
Update Bible Version
And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the graven work.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he carved [thereon] cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers; and covered [them] with gold, fitted upon the carved work.
World English Bible
He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
New King James Version
Then he carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers on them, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.
New Living Translation
These doors were decorated with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers—all overlaid evenly with gold.
New Life Bible
On them he cut pictures of cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. And he covered the pictures with an even covering of gold.
New Revised Standard
He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, overlaying them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he carved cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers, and overlaid them with gold, smoothed out on the carved work.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he carved cherubims, and palm trees, and carved work standing very much out: and he overlaid all with golden plates in square work by rule.
Revised Standard Version
On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He carved on it cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the engraved work.

Contextual Overview

15 The inside walls were covered with cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling, and the floor was made of pine. 16 An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was 30 feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling. 17 The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long. 18 The cedar panels were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers; the whole interior was covered with cedar, so that the stones of the walls could not be seen. 19 In the rear of the Temple an inner room was built, where the Lord 's Covenant Box was to be placed. 20 This inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high, all covered with pure gold. The altar was covered with cedar panels. 21 The inside of the Temple was covered with gold, and gold chains were placed across the entrance of the inner room, which was also covered with gold. 22 The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place. 23 Two winged creatures were made of olive wood and placed in the Most Holy Place, each one 15 feet tall. 24Both were of the same size and shape. Each had two wings, each wing 7½ feet long, so that the distance from one wing tip to the other was 15 feet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:26 - with flowers 1 Kings 7:36 - graved cherubims 2 Chronicles 3:7 - graved cherubims 2 Chronicles 4:21 - the flowers Psalms 74:6 - General Ezekiel 40:16 - palm trees Ezekiel 40:22 - palm trees

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he carved [thereon] cherubims, and palm trees, and open flowers,.... As upon the doors of the most holy place, 1 Kings 6:32; see Ezekiel 41:25;

and covered [them] with gold, fitted upon the carved work; plates of gold were fitted, as to the dimensions of them, to the cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.


 
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