1 Kings, Chapter 6, verses 5-10

⁵ Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around. ⁶ The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he^f Lit gavemade offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not^g Lit take holdbe inserted in the walls of the house.	5 Eze 41:6 Ki1 6:16 Ki1 6:19 Ki1 6:20 Eze 41:5
⁷ The house, while it was being built, was built of stone^h Lit finishedprepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.	7 Exo 20:25 Deu 27:5 Deu 27:6
⁸ The doorway for theⁱ So with Gr and versions; M.T. middlelowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. ⁹ So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and^j Lit rowsplanks of cedar. ¹⁰ He also built the stories against the whole house, each five^k I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.cubits high; and they^l Lit took holdwere fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.	9 Ki1 6:14 Ki1 6:38


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