1 Kgs 6:5

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against. or, upon, or joining to. built.

1Chr 9:26; 1Chr 23:28; 1Chr 28:11; 2Chr 31:11; Neh 10:37; Neh 12:44; Neh 13:5-9; Song 1:4

Jer 35:4; Ezek 40:44; Ezek 41:5-11; Ezek 42:3-12

chambers. Heb. floors.

These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.

oracle.

1Kgs 6:16; 1Kgs 6:19-21; 1Kgs 6:31; Exod 25:22; Lev 16:2; Num 7:89; 2Chr 4:20; 2Chr 5:7; 2Chr 5:9; Ps 28:2

chambers. Heb. ribs.