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New Living Translation

1 Kings 6:10

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.

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 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

Contextual Overview

1 It was in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign, that he began to construct the Temple of the Lord . This was 480 years after the people of Israel were rescued from their slavery in the land of Egypt. 2 The Temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 3 The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet from the front of the Temple. 4 Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple. 5 He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building. 6 The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1⁄2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1⁄2 feet wide. The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves. 7 The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site. 8 The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors. 9 After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks. 10 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.

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
After Noah was 500 years old, he 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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