1 Kings 6:5
in 1 Kings 6Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
KJV
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAgainst the sides of the house he made side chambers, that is, some porticos like those built around a basilica, one on the other, in three levels. He did this, in the first place, because the portico was narrow and could not been divided into …
This site's exposition
the length thereof was threescore cubits
on 1 Kings 6:2-6
Solomon's house measures sixty cubits long, twenty broad and thirty high: length and breadth run exactly double the tabernacle's thirty by ten of Exodus 26, the height risen higher still, from the tabernacle's ten cubits to thirty. The porch, the narrow windows and the three tiers of side chambers wrap the house without cutting into its own walls, resting instead on ledges built into the outer wall so that no beam is fastened into the sanctuary's stone. The chambers widen with each story, five cubits, then six, then seven, a detail the text records without saying why.
This site's exposition
he constructed the side rooms
The side rooms wrapped the temple on the north, west and south, and the portico filled the east, as Albert Barnes and John Wesley describe it. Wesley sets the rooms fifteen cubits high against a higher wall, which left space for windows above. Ishodad of Merv compares them to the porticos around a basilica.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Round about - On all the sides except the east, where the porch was; and except some very small passages for the light. And yet these lights might be in the five uppermost cubits of the wall, which were above all these chambers, for these were only fifteen cubits high, and the wall was twenty cubits high.
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,....
Solomon was not so intent upon the magnificence of the house as to neglect the conveniences that were requisite for the offices thereof, that every thing might be done decently and in order. Care was taken that the beams should not be fastened in the walls to weaken them,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Chambers - (Margin, floors). Rather, a lean-to, which completely surrounded three sides of the building, the north, the west, and the south.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּבֶן֩ | vaiyiven | and he built | H1129 → | 376 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| קִ֨יר | kir | [the] wall of | H7023 → | 75 times |
| הַבַּ֤יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יָצִ֙יעַ֙ | yatzoa' | an extension | H3326 → | 8 times |
| סָבִ֔יב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| קִיר֤וֹת | kirot | [the] walls of | H7023 → | 75 times |
| הַבַּ֙יִת֙ | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| סָבִ֔יב | saviv | around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| לַֽהֵיכָ֖ל | laheikhal | <to> the temple | H1964 → | 80 times |
| וְלַדְּבִ֑יר | veladevir | and <to> the innermost room | H1687 → | 16 times |
| וַיַּ֥עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| צְלָע֖וֹת | tzelaot | side-chambers | H6763 → | 40 times |
| סָבִֽיב׃ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
וַיִּבֶן֩and he built
vaiyivenH1129 →376 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
קִ֨יר[the] wall of
kirH7023 →75 times
הַבַּ֤יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
יָצִ֙יעַ֙an extension
yatzoa'H3326 →8 times
סָבִ֔יבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
קִיר֤וֹת[the] walls of
kirotH7023 →75 times
הַבַּ֙יִת֙the house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
סָבִ֔יבaround
savivH5439 →336 times
לַֽהֵיכָ֖ל<to> the temple
laheikhalH1964 →80 times
וְלַדְּבִ֑ירand <to> the innermost room
veladevirH1687 →16 times
וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
צְלָע֖וֹתside-chambers
tzelaotH6763 →40 times
סָבִֽיב׃all around
savivH5439 →336 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 28:2Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
it leads to
- Psalms 141:2
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
- Psalms 138:2
I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- Psalms 140:6
I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.
- 1 Timothy 2:8
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
- Psalms 5:7
But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
- Psalms 141:2
Through
1 Kings 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
- 1 Kings 8:6
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ishodad of Merv, BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 6:5; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.