1 Kings 6:6

Easy To Read Version

The rooms touched the temple wall, but their beams were not built into that wall. {That temple wall became thinner at the top.} So the wall which made one side of those rooms was thinner than the wall below it. The rooms on the bottom floor were 5 cubits [36] wide. The rooms on the middle floor were 6 cubits [37] wide. The rooms above that were 7 cubits [38] wide.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:5

Then Solomon built a row of rooms around the main part of the temple. These rooms were built on top of each other. {This row of rooms was three stories tall.}

1 Kings 6:7

The workers used large stones to build the walls. The workers cut the stones at the place where they got them out of the ground. So there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools in the temple.

2 Chronicles 3:1

Solomon began building the Lord’s temple {\cf2\super [22]} at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. Mount Moriah is the place where the Lord came to David, Solomon’s father. Solomon built the temple on the place that David had made ready. This place was at the threshing floor {\cf2\super [23]} that had belonged to Araunah {\cf2\super [24]} the Jebusite.

Ezekiel 41:6

The side rooms were on three different floors, one above the other. There were 30 rooms on each floor. The wall of the temple was built with ledges. The side rooms rested on these ledges but were not attached to the temple wall itself.