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1 Kings 6:8-10
Evangelical Heritage Version
1 Kings 6:8-10
Evangelical Heritage Version
8 The entrance into the lowest story[a] of the side rooms was on the south side[b] of the building. Winding stairs[c] went up to the middle floor, and also from the middle floor to the third floor. 9 So Solomon finished building the house, and he covered[d] the house with beams and planks of cedar. 10 He built the floors for the storerooms that were all around the house. Each story was seven and a half feet high. Each story was supported by cedar timbers which rested on the receding ledges constructed along the walls of the building.[e]
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- 1 Kings 6:8 The lowest story is the reading of the Greek Old Testament and the Targum. The Hebrew text reads the middle story, but the rest of the verse makes it clear that the entry was on the ground floor. Ezekiel 41:7 also states that the stairs went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.
- 1 Kings 6:8 In this description, in Hebrew the south side is called the right side, and the north side is called the left side.
- 1 Kings 6:8 Or ladders. The precise meaning is uncertain.
- 1 Kings 6:9 Or roofed
- 1 Kings 6:10 Literally they grasped the house with cedar timbers
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