1 Kings 6:29
New International Version
On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.

New Living Translation
He decorated all the walls of the inner sanctuary and the main room with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

English Standard Version
Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

Berean Standard Bible
Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

King James Bible
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

New King James Version
Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

New American Standard Bible
Then he carved all the surrounding walls of the house with engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, for the inner and outer sanctuaries.

NASB 1995
Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inner and outer sanctuaries.

NASB 1977
Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inner and outer sanctuaries.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, from within the inner and outer sanctuaries.

Amplified Bible
He carved all the walls of the house all around with carved engravings of cherubim, palm-shaped decorations, and open flowers, [both] the inner and the outer sanctuaries.

Christian Standard Bible
He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings—cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms—in the inner and outer sanctuaries.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings—cherubim, palm trees and flower blossoms—in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

American Standard Version
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And for all the walls of the house he made revolving ornaments and he carved ornaments and Cherubim and palm trees and lilies from within and from outside.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.

Contemporary English Version
The walls of the two rooms were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.

English Revised Version
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He carved angels, palm trees, and flowers into the walls all around the inner and outer rooms of the temple.

Good News Translation
The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers.

International Standard Version
Solomon also inlaid all the inner walls of the Temple—both the inner and outer sanctuaries—with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and blooming flowers.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

Literal Standard Version
and he has carved all around the walls of the house with engravings of carvings, cherubim, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, inside and outside.

Majority Standard Bible
Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

New American Bible
The walls of the house on all sides of both the inner and the outer rooms had carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

NET Bible
On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

New Revised Standard Version
He carved the walls of the house all around about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

New Heart English Bible
He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, within and without.

World English Bible
He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the walls of the house round about he hath carved with openings of carvings, cherubs, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, within and without.

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Context
The Cherubim
28He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. 29 Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. 30And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.…

Cross References
1 Kings 6:28
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

1 Kings 6:30
And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

2 Chronicles 3:7
He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

Psalm 74:6
and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

Ezekiel 40:16
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.

Ezekiel 41:18
were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:


Treasury of Scripture

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

carved figure

Exodus 26:8
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

2 Chronicles 3:14
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2 Chronicles 4:2-5
Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about…

Psalm 92:12-15
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon…

Revelation 7:9
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

open flowers [heb] openings of flowers

1 Kings 6:18,32
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen…

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1 Kings 6
1. The building of Solomon's temple
5. The chambers thereof
11. God's promise unto it
15. The ceiling and adorning of it
23. The cherubim
31. The doors
36. The court
37. The time of building it














(29) And he carved.--If we take this literally, we must suppose that this carving of the cherubim and the palm-trees, in addition to the general decoration of the "gourds and open flowers," was spread over all the "walls of the house." Otherwise we might have supposed it confined to the Oracle "within," and to the partition "without," which would seem more appropriate, as the cherubim belonged especially to the Oracle.

Verse 29. - And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims [lit. openings, i.e., gravings or indentations of cherubim, פִּתּוּחִים is used of gravings in stone, Exodus 28:11; Exodus 39:6: in metal, 28:36; 39:30] and palm trees and open flowers [The open flowers may well have been lilies (1 Kings 7:19, 22, 26). It is uncertain whether there were one or more rows of cherubim and palms. Keil, arguing from the analogy of Egyptian temples, contends for two or three rows, but it is doubtful how far the Israelites, notwithstanding their new and intimate relations with the country, would take Egypt and its idolatrous shrines for a model. Ezekiel 41:18 tends to show that the palm trees alternated with the cherubs. The cherubim may have had two faces, such as he describes (ver. 19), the face of a man on the one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side; but if so, they must have differed in form from those of the oracle. Possibly the open flowers formed a border, or were sculptured in festoons, above, and the gourds (or buds) formed a border below (as in the Kouyunjik slab). But as to this the text is silent. But while we are ignorant of the precise form and of the arrangement of these ornamental carvings, we are not wholly in the dark as to their symbolism. For everything in the temple, we may be sure, had a meaning. Let us inquire, then, into the significance of the cherubim, the palms and the flowers.

1. The Cherubim have been regarded by some as symbols of the invisible Godhead, by others as "representations of the heavenly spirits which surround the Lord of glory and set forth psychical life at its highest stage" (Keil); but it seems best to view them as symbols of all animal life, including the highest and perhaps not excluding the thought of Him who is the source and spring of life, the Anima animantium (cf. ch. 12:28). Hence they are spoken of as הַחַיּות (Ezekiel 1:5, 13, 15, etc.) "the living things" (compare τὰ ζῶα, Revelation 4:6, 8, 9), and even as הַחַיָּה "the life" (Ezekiel 10:14, 15, etc.) The cherubim consequently speak of the great animal kingdom before its Creator. "Creaturely being reaches its highest degree in those which have an anima, and among these, the lion, the bull, the eagle, and the man are the highest and most complete" (Bahr). These shapes, accordingly, were not inappropriate or unmeaning in a temple raised by the creature to the glory of the Creator.

2. Just as the cherubim speak of animal, so do the Palms of vegetable life. They are "the princes of the vegetable kingdom" (Linnaeus) "Amongst trees there is none so lofty and towering, none which has such a fair majestic growth, which is so evergreen, and which affords so grateful a shade and such noble fruits - fruits which are said to be the food of the blessed in paradise - as the palm" (Bahr), who also adds that it is said to have as many excellent properties as there are days in the year, and cites Humboldt as designating it the "noblest of plants forms to which the nations have always accorded the meed of beauty." Judaea, he further remarks, is the fatherland of the palm, so much so that the palm in later days became the symbol of Palestine (as on the well known coin with the legend Judaea capta). The palms, therefore, tell of the vegetable world, and of Him who fashioned its noble and graceful forms.

3. And very similar was the testimony of the Flowers. "Flowers and bloom have been, from ancient times to our own, the usual symbols of lifefulness .... So then by the flower work, as well as by the cherubim and the palm trees, was the dwelling of Jehovah, which was adorned therewith, designated as an abode of life" (Bahr). On the earthly dwelling place of the Eternal, that is to say, were everywhere pourtrayed the various tokens of His Almighty power and goodness. And the significance of each is the same. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created." They were graved] within and without. [These words, here and in ver. 30, are generally taken to mean "in the oracle and in the house." But it is worthy of consideration whether they do not rather signify, "in the house and in the porch." The latter was overlaid with gold (2 Chronicles 3:4). It is doubtful whether לַחִיצון on the outside, can be applied to any part of the interior, and here its application would be to the oracle (Thenius)].

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then he carved
קָלַ֗ע (qā·la‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7049: To sling, hurl forth

the walls
קִיר֨וֹת (qî·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7023: A wall

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

around
מֵסַ֣ב ׀ (mê·saḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 4524: That which surrounds or is round

the temple,
הַבַּ֜יִת (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

in both the inner
מִלִּפְנִ֖ים (mil·lip̄·nîm)
Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Adverb
Strong's 6440: The face

and outer sanctuaries,
וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃ (wə·la·ḥî·ṣō·wn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2435: The, wall side, exterior, secular

with carved
מִקְלְעוֹת֙ (miq·lə·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4734: A sculpture

engravings
פִּתּוּחֵי֙ (pit·tū·ḥê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6603: An engraving

of cherubim,
כְּרוּבִ֣ים (kə·rū·ḇîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3742: Probably an order of angelic beings

palm trees,
וְתִֽמֹרֹ֔ת (wə·ṯi·mō·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8561: A palm-like pilaster

and open
וּפְטוּרֵ֖י (ū·p̄ə·ṭū·rê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6358: Opened, a bud

flowers.
צִצִּ֑ים (ṣiṣ·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6731: Glistening, a burnished plate, a flower, a wing


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