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1 Kings 6:8 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 6 · verse 8
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.1 Kings 6:8 · King James Version
1 Kings 6:8 in context
6The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
8The 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.
9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- chambertsêlâʻa rib , literally or figuratively (of a doorH6763 →
- middletîykôwncentralH8484 →
- stairslûwla spiral stepH3883 →
- rightyᵉmânîyrightH3233 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- thirdshᵉlîyshîythirdH7992 →
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— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10