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1 Kings 6:7-9
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1 Kings 6:7-9
New English Translation
7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry[a] were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built. 8 The entrance to the bottom[b] level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up[c] to the middle floor and then on up to the third[d] floor. 9 He finished building the temple[e] and covered it[f] with rafters[g] and boards made of cedar.[h]
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- 1 Kings 6:7 tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
- 1 Kings 6:8 tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
- 1 Kings 6:8 tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
- 1 Kings 6:8 tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashelishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashelishim, “the thirty”).
- 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “ built the house and completed it.”
- 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “the house.”
- 1 Kings 6:9 tn The word occurs only here; the precise meaning is uncertain.
- 1 Kings 6:9 tn Heb “and rows with cedar wood.”
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