ceiling Summary and Overview

the covering (1 Kings 7:3,7) of the inside roof and walls of a house with planks of wood (2 Chr. 3:5; Jer. 22:14). Ceilings were sometimes adorned with various ornaments in stucco, gold, silver, gems, and ivory. The ceilings of the temple and of Solomon's palace are described 1 Kings 6:9, 15; 7:3; 2 Chr. 3:5,9.

The descriptions of Scripture, #1Ki 6:9,15; 7:3; 2Ch 3:5,9; Jer 22:14; Hag 1:4| and of Josephus, show that the ceilings of the temple and the palaces of the Jewish kings were formed of cedar planks applied to the beams or joists crossing from wall to wall. "Oriental houses seem to have been the reverse of ours, the ceiling being of wood, richly ornamented, and the floor of plaster or tiles."

CEIL'ING . We have a description of the ceiling of Solomon's temple and palace in 1 Kgs 6:9-10,2 Sam 20:15; 1 Kgs 7:3; 2 Chr 3:5. It was made of planks of cedar or fir "laid on beams or rests in the wall." Eastern floors and ceilings were just the reverse of ours. Their ceilings were of wood, painted, Jer 22:14, ours are of plaster; their floors were of plaster or some sort of tiles, ours are of wood.