The doorway for the [a]lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. So (A)he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and [b]planks of cedar. 10 He also built the stories against the whole house, each five [c]cubits high; and they [d]were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:8 So with Gr and versions; M.T. middle
  2. 1 Kings 6:9 Lit rows
  3. 1 Kings 6:10 I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.
  4. 1 Kings 6:10 Lit took hold