And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry: and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings 6:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle chambers, and out of the middle into the third. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the right [or south] side of the house; and one went up winding stairs into the middle chamber and from the middle into the third. American Standard Version (1901) The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third. Common English Bible The door to the stairs was at the south side of the temple. Winding stairs went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor. Catholic Public Domain Version The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third. |
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry: and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them.
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.