1 Kings 6:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The entrance for the lower story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.

1 Kings 6:8 Cross References

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built with stone finished at the quarry so that neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built.

1 Kings 6:9

So he built the house and finished it; he roofed the house with beams and planks of cedar.

2 Chronicles 31:11

Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare store chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

Jeremiah 35:2

Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.

Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.