And the nethermost gallery was five cubits broad, and the middlemost six cubits broad, and the third seven cubits broad: for he made [a]rests round about without the house, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfect, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

The door of the middle [b]chamber was in the right side of the house, and men went up with winding stairs into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:6 Which were certain stones coming out of the wall, as stays for the beams to rest upon.
  2. 1 Kings 6:8 Or, Gallery.

Bible Gateway Recommends