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He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
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Verse 5. House. between the most holy place and the porch, ( Tirinus.) or it may comprise all but the porch. Hebrew “he covered (or boarded) all this great house.” Calmet.—Deal boards interspersed with those of cedar. 3 Kennicott. 6:9. Tirinus.—Fine, (obrizi.) Hebrew “of Parvaim, which is probably the same as Sepharvaim, Ophir, and so forth not far from Media and Colchis. Calmet.
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