1 Kings 6:5

And he built—by the wall of the house—a gallery, round about, against the walls of the house, round about, both to the temple, and to the shrine,—and he made side chambers round about.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

In Context

4And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.

6The, lowest gallery, was five cubits broad, and, the middle, six cubits broad, and, the third, seven cubits broad,—for he put, ledges, against the house round about, on the outer side, so as not to make fastenings in the walls of the house.

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Cross References

Leviticus 16:2And Yahweh said unto Moses—Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he do not come at all times into the holy place, within the veil,—into the presence of the propitiatory, which is upon the ark, so shall he not die, for, in the cloud, will I appear upon the propitiatory.

1 Kings 6:16And he built twenty cubits, at the hinder part of the house, with boards of cedar, from the floor as far as the cross-beams,—and he built it within, for a shrine, even for the holy of holies;

1 Kings 6:31And, the entrance of the shrine, made he with doors, of wild olive-wood, the pillars and posts being a fifth.

1 Chronicles 23:28For, their duty, was—to be in attendance upon the sons of Aaron, in the laborious work of the house of Yahweh, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purifying of everything holy,—and doing the laborious work, of the house of God;

2 Chronicles 4:20and the lamp-holders and their lamps, that they should burn according to the regulation before the shrine, of purified gold;

2 Chronicles 5:9And they drew out the staves, and the heads of the staves could be seen out of the ark, in front of the shrine, although they could not be seen on the outside,—and it came to pass that they have remained there—unto this day.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:2-11

The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1011.) 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord . 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord , the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the porch before the… Read the whole commentary →

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