OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 10:12

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The king made of the almug trees pillars for the LORD’s house and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen to this day.

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Verse 12. Rails. Hebrew mihsad, “pillars, supporters, or banisters.” Bible.—Most interpreters suppose the rails were on each side of the road, leading from the palace to the temple. Calmet.—Paral. stairs.—Citterns, or harps and lyres. Bible.—Hebrew “kinnoroth and nebalim.”

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