1 Kings 6:6

The English Standar Version

The lowest story[4] was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:5

He also built a structure[3] against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.

1 Kings 6:7

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

2 Chronicles 3:1

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD[1] had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Ezekiel 41:6

And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[5] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.