1Ki 6:5-10 | TSK | e4.org | against or, upon, or joining to built , , ; ; , , ; ; ; , , chambers Heb. floors, These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon. oracle , , ; ; ; ; , , ; chambers Heb. ribs

‏ 1 Kings 6:5-10

against or, upon, or joining to

built 1Chr 9:26, 1Chr 23:28, 1Chr 28:11; 2Chr 31:11; Neh 10:37, Neh 12:44, Neh 13:5-9; Song 1:4; Jer 35:4; Ezek 40:44, Ezek 41:5-11, Ezek 42:3-12

chambers Heb. floors, These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.

oracle 1Kgs 6:16, 1Kgs 6:19-21, 1Kgs 6:31; Exod 25:22; Lev 16:2; Num 7:89; 2Chr 4:20, 2Chr 5:7, 2Chr 5:9; Ps 28:2

chambers Heb. ribs

narrowed rests or, narrowings, or rebatements, 1Kgs 6:6

built of stone 1Kgs 5:17-18; Deut 27:5-6; Prov 24:27; Rom 9:23; 2Cor 5:5; Col 1:12; 1Pet 2:5

neither hammer Isa 42:2; Acts 9:31; Jas 1:20, Jas 3:17-18

side Heb. shoulder

went up Ezek 41:6-7

he built 1Kgs 6:14, 1Kgs 6:38

with beams and boards of cedar or, the vault beams and the ceilings with cedar