That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows for it; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Wide. Hebrew, "measured "large, and well-proportioned.
Vermilion, (cynopide.) This colour was invented in the town of Pontus, and was used for statues (Pliny, xxxiii. 6., and xxxv. 6.) (Wisdom xiii. 14.) (Calmet)
Hebrew shashar (Haydock) may mean indigo. (Junius) (Calmet)
