The door for the lowest[a] side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They[b] went up a stairway[c] to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third. When he finished building the temple,(A) he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar. 10 He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams;(B) each story was 7½ feet[d] high.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:8 LXX, Tg; MT reads middle
  2. 1 Kings 6:8 = people
  3. 1 Kings 6:8 Hb obscure
  4. 1 Kings 6:10 Lit five cubits

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