1 Kings 6:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

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  • Ezek 41:6-7 : 6 And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house. 7 The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

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  • Ezek 41:5-11
    7 verses
    82%

    5 Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.

    6 And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.

    7 The side-rooms became wider as they went higher up the house, by the amount of the space let into the wall up round about the house, because of the inlets in the house; and one went up from the lowest floor by steps to the middle, and from the middle to the upper floor.

    8 And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

    9 The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.

    10 And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.

    11 And the free space had doors opening from the side-rooms, one door on the north and one door on the south: and the free space was five cubits wide all round.

  • 1 Kgs 6:3-7
    5 verses
    80%

    3 The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

    4 And for the house he made windows, with network across.

    5 And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6 The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

    7 (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

  • Ezek 42:3-6
    4 verses
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    3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

    4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

    5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

    6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
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    9 So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10 And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

  • Ezek 42:9-12
    4 verses
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    9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

    10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

    11 And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

    12 And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

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    16 And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

    17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • 37 Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

  • 36 And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

  • 34 And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

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    16 And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

    18 (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

  • 3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

  • Ezek 40:6-7
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    6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

    7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

  • 1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

  • 26 And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.

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    30 And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

    31 For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.

  • 31 The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.

  • 34 And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.

  • 10 And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.

  • 12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

  • 1 Kgs 7:5-6
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    5 And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

    6 And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

  • 5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

  • 22 And its windows, and the windows of its covered ways, and its palm-trees, were the same as those of the doorway looking to the east; and there were seven steps up to it; and the covered way went inside.

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    12 And the space in front of the rooms, a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side; and the rooms six cubits on this side and six cubits on that.

    13 And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

  • 37 And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

  • 49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

  • 3 Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud.