1 Kings 6:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each storey was 2.25 metres high. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then he built the stories of chambers [the lean-to] against all the house, each [story] five cubits high; and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar. American Standard Version (1901) And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. Common English Bible Then he built the side rooms all around the temple. They were seven and a half feet high. He attached them to the temple with cedarwood. Catholic Public Domain Version And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height: and he covered the house with timber of cedar. |
When he finished building the temple, he panelled it with boards and planks of cedar.
Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram’s daughter and Ahaziah’s sister, secretly rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from among the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. So he was hidden from Athaliah and was not killed.
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple and its buildings, treasuries, upstairs rooms, inner rooms, and a room for the mercy seat.
‘Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the temple of the Lord to offer them a drink of wine.’
The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each. There were ledges on the wall of the temple all round to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.