1 Kings 6:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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.