1 Kings 6:18

New American Bible - revised edition

The cedar in the interior of the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was of cedar, and no stone was to be seen.

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The house was forty cubits long, that is, the nave, the part in front.

In the innermost part of the house he set up the inner sanctuary to house the ark of the Lord’s covenant.

Under the brim, gourds encircled it for ten cubits around the compass of the sea; the gourds were in two rows and were cast in one mold with the sea.

They smashed all its engraved work, struck it with ax and pick.