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Concise Bible Dictionary
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This
was much
used
in
the
Temple
. “He carved
all
the walls of the
house
round
about
with
carved figures of
cherubim
, and
palm
-trees, and open flowers.”
They
were then overlaid with
gold
(
1 Kings 6:18, 29-35
18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. (1 Kings 6:18)
29
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
30
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
33
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
35
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work. (1 Kings 6:29‑35)
). The Psalmist prophetically laments its being broken
down
by the enemy with axes and hammers (
Psa. 74:6
6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. (Psalm 74:6)
).
For
the “carved images” of
idolatry
(
Judg. 18:18
18
And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? (Judges 18:18)
;
2 Chron. 33:7,22
7
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: (2 Chronicles 33:7)
22
But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; (2 Chronicles 33:22)
;
2 Chron. 34:3-4
3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
4
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. (2 Chronicles 34:3‑4)
), another word is used, which is elsewhere translated “
graven
image
.”
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
6459
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
pecel
Phonic:
peh’-sel
Meaning:
from
6458
; an idol
KJV Usage:
carved (graven) image
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