OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 6:18

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There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

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Verse 18. Out. Hebrew “and the cedar boards of the house within, were carved with knops (fruits) and open flowers,” ( Bible.) alternately. Calmet.—At all. So the bones in the human body, though concealed, strengthen it; and monks, in their deserts, fortify the Church. Worthington.

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