1 Kings 6:8
in 1 Kings 6The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.
KJV
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The door for the middle chamber - i. e., the door which gave access to the mid-most “set of chambers.” The chambers on the ground-floor were possibly reached each by their own door in the outer wall of the lean-to. The middle and upper floors were reached by a single door in the right or south wall, from which a winding staircase ascended to the second tier, while another ascended from the second to the third. The door to the stairs was in the outer wall of the building, not in the wall between the chambers and the temple.
This site's exposition
with winding stairs into the middle chamber
on 1 Kings 6:8-10
The door to the middle chamber sits on the south side of the house, and a winding stair carries a man from the first level up to the second and from the second to the third. Rings of side chambers, five cubits high per story, rest on the ledges cut into the outer wall and are finished with beams and boards of cedar laid over the house. The passage is architecture only, three floors wrapped around the sanctuary proper for storage and priestly use.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
"The door of the middle side was on the right side of the house." [1 Kings 6:8] When it is said: The door of the middle side was on the right side of the house, it does not indicate, as some think, that the door …
The way to the upper and third [parts of the] building was made through the innermost part of the southern wall, as if by an invisible entrance, so that only its beginning might be evident from the eastern corner of the before-mentioned [southern] wall. Only …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The door - That is, by which they entered to go up to the middle chamber or chambers; such as were in the middle story. Right side - That is, in the south-side, called the right side; because when a man looks towards the east, the south is on his right hand.
The door of the middle chamber was in the right side of the house,....
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פֶּ֗תַח | petach | [the] entrance of | H6607 → | 164 times |
| הַצֵּלָע֙ | hatzela' | the side-chamber | H6763 → | 40 times |
| הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה | hatikhonah | <the> middle | H8484 → | 11 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | [was] to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| כֶּ֥תֶף | ketef | [the] side of | H3802 → | 67 times |
| הַבַּ֖יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַיְמָנִ֑ית | haymanit | <the> south | H3233 → | |
| וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים | uvelulim | and by stairs | H3883 → | |
| יַֽעֲלוּ֙ | yaalu | people went up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה | hatikhonah | the middle | H8484 → | 11 times |
| וּמִן־ | umin- | and from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה | hatikhonah | the middle | H8484 → | 11 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים׃ | hashelishim | the thirty | H7992 → | 107 times |
פֶּ֗תַח[the] entrance of
petachH6607 →164 times
הַצֵּלָע֙the side-chamber
hatzela'H6763 →40 times
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה<the> middle
hatikhonahH8484 →11 times
אֶל־[was] to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
כֶּ֥תֶף[the] side of
ketefH3802 →67 times
הַבַּ֖יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
הַיְמָנִ֑ית<the> south
haymanitH3233 →
וּבְלוּלִּ֗יםand by stairs
uvelulimH3883 →
יַֽעֲלוּ֙people went up
yaaluH5927 →890 times
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔הthe middle
hatikhonahH8484 →11 times
וּמִן־and from
umin-H4480 →1188 times
הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖הthe middle
hatikhonahH8484 →11 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים׃the thirty
hashelishimH7992 →107 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Questions on the Book of Kings #12; Bede, Homilies on the Gospels 2.1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.