And (A)the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. The doorway for the [a]middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

(B)So he built the [b]temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:8 So with MT, Vg.; LXX upper story; Tg. ground story
  2. 1 Kings 6:9 Lit. house

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