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New American Standard Bible (1995)

1 Kings 6:10

He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Temple, Solomon's;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Oracle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cedar;   Chamber;   Stories;   Temple;   Zizah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.
Hebrew Names Version
He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
King James Version
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
English Standard Version
He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
New Century Version
as well as the bottom floor that was beside the Temple. This bottom floor was seven and one-half feet high and was attached to the Temple by cedar beams.
New English Translation
He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.
Amplified Bible
Then he built the extensions [of rooms] against the entire house, each [story] five cubits high; and they were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.
New American Standard Bible
He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames of cedar.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.
Contemporary English Version
Storage rooms seven and a half feet high were all around the temple, and they were attached to the temple by cedar beams.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each floor of the annex surrounding the house was eight-and-three-quarters feet high and was attached to the house with beams of cedar.
Darby Translation
And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then he finished building the rooms around the Temple. Each story was 5 cubits tall. The cedar beams in these rooms rested on a ledge of the Temple wall.
George Lamsa Translation
And then he built additional rooms against the whole house, five cubits high, and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.
Good News Translation
The three-storied annex, each story 7½ feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.
Lexham English Bible
He also built the structure against all of the temple five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple with beams of cedar.
Literal Translation
And he built the side-stories on all the house, each five cubits in height; and they held to the house with cedar wood.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He buylded a galery also aboue vpon the whole house fyue cubytes hye, and couered the house with Ceder tymber.
American Standard Version
And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
Bible in Basic English
And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And then he built chambers to all the temple fiue cubites heyght, & they were ioyned to the house with beames of Cedar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
King James Version (1611)
And then hee built chambers against all the house, fiue cubites high: and they rested on the house with timber of Cedar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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English Revised Version
And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
Berean Standard Bible
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and bildide a bildyng of tablis ouer al the hows, bi fyue cubitis of heiythe, and hilide the hows with `trees of cedre.
Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits [is] its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.
Update Bible Version
And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
World English Bible
He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
New King James Version
And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
New Living Translation
As already stated, he built a complex of rooms along the sides of the building, attached to the Temple walls by cedar timbers. Each story of the complex was 7 1⁄2 feet high.
New Life Bible
He built the three floors against the outside wall of the house. Each one was as high as a man could raise his hand. They were joined to the house with big pieces of cedar wood.
New Revised Standard
He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and built the gallery against all the house, five cubits in height, - and so fastened the house, with timber of cedar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.
Revised Standard Version
He built the structure against the whole house, each story five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.

Contextual Overview

1 Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. 2 As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. 3 The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits. 4 Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames. 5 Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around. 6 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 made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not be inserted in the walls of the house. 7 The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built. 8 The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. 9 So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. 10 He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:6 - cedar trees 2 Kings 11:2 - in the bedchamber 1 Chronicles 28:11 - upper chambers Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 41:6 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [then] he built chambers against all the house five cubits high,.... Which some understand of the same chambers in 1 Kings 6:5; here made mention of again for the sake of giving the height of them, not before given; but they were built against, or upon the wall of the house, these against, or rather upon the whole house itself; and are the chambers referred to, 1 Kings 6:5- :; which consisting of three stories of ninety cubits, raised the whole house to an equal height with the porch, 2 Chronicles 3:4; as is there intended x; these are the upper chambers in 2 Chronicles 3:9; and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar; or on the timber of cedar, the beams of cedar, with which the house was covered, as in 1 Kings 6:9; on these the chambers rested, being built upon them; and in one of these chambers the disciples might be after Christ's ascension, Acts 1:13.

x Vid. Joseph. Antiqu. ut supra. (l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2.)


 
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