And he made for the house (A)windows with beveled frames.

Against the wall of the [a]temple he built (B)chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary (C)and the [b]inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it. The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the [c]temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:5 Lit. house
  2. 1 Kings 6:5 Heb. debir; here the inner room of the temple; elsewhere called the Most Holy Place, v. 16
  3. 1 Kings 6:6 Lit. house

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