1 Kings 6:18

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The inside walls were lined with cedar to hide the stones, and the cedar was decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers.

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The temple's main room was eighteen metres long, and it was in front of the most holy place.

The sacred chest was kept in the most holy place.

Two rows of bronze gourds were around the outer edge of the bowl, ten gourds to about every forty-five centimetres.

They used axes and hatchets to smash the carvings.