Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 6:15

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling , and he covered them on the inside with wood , and covered the floor of the house m with planks of fir.

Or rather, from the floor, as it is in the Hebrew: for the floor it self was not covered with Cedar, but with fir, as it here follows.

Or rather, as it is in the Hebrew, unto the walls of the cieling, or of the roof; i. e. unto the top of the Wall, which was even with the Roof: for the Roof it self was not of Stone, but Wood. Or, unto the walls of the cieling, i. e. unto the Cieling it self; which performing the office of a Wall, may well be called by that name. For the name of a wall is not appropriated to Stone or Brick, because we read of a Brazen wall, Ier. 15. 20. and a wall of Iron, Ezek. 4. 3. And that wall into which Saul smote his javelin, 1 Sam. 19. 10. seems more probably to be understood of Wood, than of Stone; especially, considering that it was the Room where the King used to dine. So by this Periphrasis, from the floor of the house, unto the walls of the cieling, he disigns all the side-walls of the house.

To wit, the side-walls of the House, now mentioned.

i. e. With other kind of Wood, even with Fir; as appears from 2 Chron. 3. 5. wherewith the Floor is here said to be covered; and this [illegible: 1+ letters]s here spoken onely concerning the Floor, because there was nothing but Planks of Fir; whereas there was both Cedar and Fir in the sides of the House, the Fir being either put above, or upon the Cedar; or, intermixed with, or put between the boards or ribs of Cedar: as may be gathered from the said Parallel place, 2 Chron. 3. 5.

Marginal references: Or, from the [illegible: 1 word] of the [illegible: 1 word], unto the [illegible: 1 word], &c. and ver. 16.