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1 Kings 6:5-10
New American Standard Bible
1 Kings 6:5-10
New American Standard Bible
5 (A)Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the main room and the [a](B)inner sanctuary; so he made (C)side chambers all around. 6 The lowest story was [b]five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he [c]made offsets in the wall of the house all around so that the beams would not [d]be inserted into the walls of the house.
7 (D)The house, while it was being built, was built of stone finished at the quarry, and neither hammer, nor axe, nor any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.
8 The doorway for the [e]lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by a winding staircase to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. 9 So (E)he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and [f]planks of cedar. 10 He also built the stories against the whole house, each [g]five cubits high; and they [h]were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.
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- 1 Kings 6:5 I.e., Most Holy Place
- 1 Kings 6:6 About 7.5 ft. wide, 9 ft. wide, and 11 ft. wide or 2.3 m, 2.7 m, and 3.3 m
- 1 Kings 6:6 Lit gave
- 1 Kings 6:6 Lit take hold
- 1 Kings 6:8 As in LXX and ancient versions; MT middle
- 1 Kings 6:9 Or rows
- 1 Kings 6:10 About 7.5 ft. or 2.3 m
- 1 Kings 6:10 Lit took hold
1 Kings 6:5-10
New International Version
1 Kings 6:5-10
New International Version
5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.(A) 6 The lowest floor was five cubits[a] wide, the middle floor six cubits[b] and the third floor seven.[c] He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.
7 In building the temple, only blocks dressed(B) at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool(C) was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
8 The entrance to the lowest[d] floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. 9 So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar(D) planks. 10 And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verses 10 and 24
- 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 9 feet or about 2.7 meters
- 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters
- 1 Kings 6:8 Septuagint; Hebrew middle
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