1 Re 6:6

La Riveduta Bibbia

Il piano inferiore era largo cinque cubiti; quello di mezzo sei cubiti, e il terzo sette cubiti; perch’egli avea fatto delle sporgenze tutt’intorno ai muri esterni della casa, affinché le travi non fossero incastrate nei muri della casa.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Le camere del primo piano erano larghe cinque cubiti, la larghezza di quelle di mezzo di sei cubiti e la larghezza di quelle del terzo piano di sette cubiti; egli infatti aveva fatto delle sporgenze tuttintorno ai muri del tempio, perch le travi di sostegno non fossero incastrate nei muri del tempio.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
La larghezza del palco da basso era di cinque cubiti, e la larghezza di quel di mezzo di sei, e la larghezza del terzo di sette; perciocchè egli fece delle ritratte alla Casa, di fuori; acciocchè que’ palchi non entrassero dentro alle mura della Casa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

narrowed rests: or, narrowings, or rebatements, 1 Kings 6:6

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

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad,.... The nethermost row of them, which were upon the first floor:

and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad; so that the middlemost was a cubit larger than the lowest, and the highest a cubit larger than that: the reason of which was,

for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about; or rebatements; the thickness of the wall, as it was raised, became narrower at the height of every five cubits; thus the wall being supposed to be six cubits broad, as in Ezekiel 41:5; when it came to be five cubits high, it was narrowed a cubit, which left a projection, rebatement, or bench for the beams of the first chambers to be laid upon, which made the second row of chambers broader by a cubit; and the same being observed in the next story, made the highest a cubit broader than the middlemost: and this was done,

that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house; or be inserted into them, which could not be done without making holes in it; and these holes could not be made without an iron instrument, and which was not to be used, as the next words show; whereas by the above method the beams of the chambers could be laid upon the buttresses, benches, or rebatements left, without the use of any: the gradual enlargement of these chambers, as they rose higher, may denote the enlargement of the church of God, both as to numbers, gifts, and grace, the nearer it comes to the heavenly state, as in the spiritual and personal reign of Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In order to preserve the sanctity of the temple, and at the same time allow the attachment to it of secular buildings - sleeping apartments, probably, for the priests and other attendants - Solomon made “rebatements” in the wall of the temple, or in other words built it externally in steps, thus: The beams, which formed the roof of the chambers and the floors of the upper stories, were then laid on these steps or “rests” in the wall, not piercing the wall, or causing any real union of the secular with the sacred building. It resulted from this arrangement that the lowest; chambers were the narrowest, and the uppermost considerably the widest of all, the wall receding each time by the space of a cubit.