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Also for the house (A)he made windows with artistic frames. (B)And he built, against the wall of the house, stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the (C)inner sanctuary; thus he made (D)side chambers all around. The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he [a]made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not [b]be inserted in the walls of the house.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:6 Lit gave
  2. 1 Kings 6:6 Lit take hold

He made narrow windows(A) high up in the temple walls. Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.(B) The lowest floor was five cubits[a] wide, the middle floor six cubits[b] and the third floor seven.[c] He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verses 10 and 24
  2. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 9 feet or about 2.7 meters
  3. 1 Kings 6:6 That is, about 11 feet or about 3.2 meters