1 Kings 6:10

Good News Translation

The three-storied annex, each story 7½ feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:11

The Lord said to Solomon,

1 Kings 6:9

So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.

2 Kings 11:2

Only Ahaziah's son Joash escaped. He was about to be killed with the others, but was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half sister. She took him and his nurse into a bedroom in the Temple and hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

1 Chronicles 28:11

David gave Solomon the plans for all the Temple buildings, for the storerooms and all the other rooms, and for the Most Holy Place, where sins are forgiven.

Song of Solomon 1:17

the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling.

Jeremiah 35:2

“Go to the members of the Rechabite clan and talk to them. Then bring them into one of the rooms in the Temple and offer them some wine.”

Ezekiel 41:6

These rooms were in three stories, with thirty rooms on each floor. The Temple's outer wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without being anchored into it.