1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the south side of the house, with stairs going up to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
KJV1611 – Modern English
The door for the middle chamber was on the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and from the middle into the third.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
But on the righte syde of the myddes of the house there was a dore, so yt they might go vp to the myddest stacion by a turne grese, & from the myddest stacion vnto ye thirde.
Geneva Bible (1560)
The doore of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, & men went vp with winding stayres into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
The doore of the middle chamber was in the ryght syde of the house: and men went vp with wineding stayres into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.
Webster's Bible (1833)
The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
The opening of the middle side `is' at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third.
American Standard Version (1901)
The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle `story', and out of the middle into the third.
American Standard Version (1901)
The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
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.
World English Bible (2000)
The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.
Referenced Verses
- Ezek 41:6-7 : 6 The side rooms were arranged one above the other in three stories, with thirty chambers per story. They were supported by wall offsets in the temple, so that they were not fastened into the wall of the temple itself. 7 The side rooms became wider as they went higher, because the temple walls narrowed at each upward level. A stairway allowed access from the lower story to the upper story through the middle story.
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- Ezek 41:5-117 verses82%
5Then he measured the wall of the temple, which was six cubits thick, and the width of the side rooms surrounding the temple was four cubits.
6The side rooms were arranged one above the other in three stories, with thirty chambers per story. They were supported by wall offsets in the temple, so that they were not fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
7The side rooms became wider as they went higher, because the temple walls narrowed at each upward level. A stairway allowed access from the lower story to the upper story through the middle story.
8I also saw that the temple had a raised base all around it. This foundation for the side chambers was six cubits high.
9The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick, and there was a free space of open ground around the temple.
10There was a space of twenty cubits between the side chambers and the outer chambers, all around the temple.
11The entrances to the side chambers opened into the free space, with one entrance facing north and another facing south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.
- 1 Kgs 6:3-75 verses80%
3The vestibule in front of the main hall of the house was twenty cubits long, extending along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
4He made windows with recessed frames for the house.
5He built a structure against the wall of the house, enclosing the walls of the house around the main hall and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.
6The lowest side chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the beams would not be embedded in the walls of the house.
7The house, when it was being built, was constructed of finished stone cut from the quarry, so that no hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built.
- Ezek 42:3-64 verses77%
3It faced the twenty cubits belonging to the inner court and the pavement belonging to the outer court, with a gallery facing a gallery, set in three tiers.
4Opposite the chambers was a walkway ten cubits wide and one cubit long, and their entrances faced the north.
5The upper chambers were shorter because the galleries took away space from them, compared to the lower and middle tiers of the building.
6These chambers were arranged in three tiers, but they did not have columns like the columns of the courts. Therefore, they were set back from the lower and middle tiers, starting from the ground.
- 1 Kgs 6:9-102 verses77%
9So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar boards.
10He also built the annex against the entire house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.
- Ezek 42:9-124 verses76%
9Underneath these chambers was the entrance from the east, which one could use when coming into them from the outer court.
10On the width of the wall of the courtyard, facing the separated area and the building, on the east side, were chambers.
11The passageway in front of them matched the appearance of the chambers on the north; they had the same length and width, with identical exits, designs, and entrances.
12Just like the entrances of the chambers facing south, there was an entrance at the head of the way that ran before the wall, directly eastward as one approached them.
- Ezek 41:16-172 verses76%
16The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.
17From above the entrance to the inner house and on the outside, and on all the walls all around, both inside and out, there were measurements.
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37Its porch faced the outer courtyard, with palm tree decorations on its posts, one on each side. Eight steps led up to it.
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36He built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
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34Its porch faced the outer courtyard. Palm tree decorations were on its posts, one on each side. Eight steps led up to it.
- 1 Kgs 6:16-183 verses74%
16He built twenty cubits at the rear of the house with cedar boards, from the floor to the walls, to form the inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was forty cubits long.
18The cedar within the house was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone could be seen.
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3Then he went inside and measured the jambs of the entrance, which were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the width of the entrance was seven cubits.
- Ezek 40:6-72 verses74%
6Then he went to the gateway that faced east, climbed its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate as one rod wide.
7Each guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits. The threshold of the gateway at the porch of the gate, located toward the inside, was also one rod.
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1Then he brought me out to the outer court, leading me in the direction of the north, and he brought me to the chamber that faced the separated area and the building, toward the north.
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26Its staircase had seven steps, leading up to it, and its porches were in front of them. It also had palm tree decorations, one on each side of its posts.
- 1 Kgs 6:30-312 verses73%
30He also overlaid the floor of the house with gold, both the inner and the outer rooms.
31For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood; the doorposts formed a pentagon.
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31Its porch faced the outer courtyard, and palm tree decorations adorned its posts. Eight steps led up to it.
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34The two doors were of cypress wood. Each door had two folding panels; one door had two folding sections, and the other door also had two folding sections.
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10There were three guardrooms on either side of the east-facing gateway, all of them were of equal dimension. The pilasters on either side also measured the same.
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12The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of hewn stone and one row of cedar beams, similar in design to the inner courtyard of the Lord's house and its portico.
- 1 Kgs 7:5-62 verses72%
5All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with openings placed directly opposite each other in three tiers.
6He made the Hall of Pillars, which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of the pillars and a canopy above them.
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5He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.
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22Its windows, its porches, and its palm tree decorations were designed similarly to the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porches were in front of them.
- Ezek 40:12-132 verses71%
12There was a border of one cubit in front of the guardrooms on either side, and each guardroom was six cubits square on both sides.
13He measured the gateway from the roof of one guardroom to the roof of the opposite one; the width was twenty-five cubits. Doorway faced doorway.
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37At the Fountain Gate, they went straight up the stairs of the City of David, on the ascent to the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.
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49The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and its width was eleven cubits. On the steps leading up to it were columns, one on each side, at the entrance.
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3The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.