⁸ Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard [the message] which you have sent to me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

⁵ David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

¹⁵ He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

³⁴ and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

⁵ The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.