◄ 1 Kings 6:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third stories.

New Revised Standard Version
The entrance for the middle story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.

Contemporary English Version
The entrance to the bottom storage rooms was on the south side of the building, and stairs to the other rooms were also there.

New American Bible
The entrance to the middle story was on the south side of the house; stairs led up to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

side [heb] shoulder

Ezekiel 41:6,7 And the side chambers one by another, were twice thirty-three: and they bore outwards, that they might enter in through the wall of the house in the sides round about, to hold in, and not to touch the wall of the temple. . . .

Context
The Chambers
…7And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building. 8The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.9So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

2 Chronicles 31:11
Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when they had done so,

Jeremiah 35:2
Go to the house of the Rechabites: and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt give them wine to drink.

Ezekiel 41:7
And there was a broad passage round about, going up by winding stairs, and it led into the upper loft of the temple all round: therefore was the temple broader in the higher parts: and so from the lower parts they went to the higher by the midst.

1 Kings 6:7
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