And it was made with cherubims and with palm-trees On the inside of the house the walls were adorned with carved work of cherubim and palm-trees, as Solomon's temple was, 1 Kings 6:29. The cherubs and palm-trees were placed alternately; and according to the different ways of counting them, you might reckon a palm-tree placed between two cherubs, or a cherubim placed between two palm-trees. So the face of a man was toward a palm-tree, &c. The cherubim had four faces, or appearances, but only two of these appeared plainly in this carved work; the two other faces, namely, that of an ox and an eagle, being supposed to be hid in the plain or surface of the wall. From the ground unto above the door Up to the windows, as it is expressed Ezekiel 41:16, or up to the ceiling, as the LXX. explain it.

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