1Ki 6:5-6, Eze 41:6-7, 42:3-14 | TSK | STEP | against. or, upon, or joining to. built. chambers. Heb. floors.These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon. oracle. chambers. Heb. ribs.

1 Kings 6:5-6

against. or, upon, or joining to. built.

1Ch 9:26; 23:28; 28:11; 2Ch 31:11; Ne 10:37; 12:44; 13:5-9; So 1:4

chambers. Heb. floors.These appear to have been what we should now call corridors or galleries; in which were apartments for the use of the priests. They consisted of three stories, and increased one cubit in breadth in every story, the wall of the temple being two cubits thicker at the bottom than at the top; and where the wall diminished, a rest was thus formed for the beams of the chambers to lodge upon.

oracle.

16,19-21,31; Ex 25:22; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89; 2Ch 4:20; 5:7,9; Ps 28:2

chambers. Heb. ribs.

narrowed rests. or, narrowings, or rebatements.

Ezekiel 41:6-7

one over another. Heb. side chamber over side chamber.thirty in order. or, three and thirty times, or feet. We find by Josephus, that around Solomon's temple were chambers three stories high, each story consisting of thirty chambers; which are supposed to have been on the north, south, and east sides of the temple.

and they.

1Ki 6:6,10

have held. Heb. be holden.

1Pe 1:5

but.That is, the beams or supporters, of the chambers were not let into the main wall of the temple; but rested on projections of the outer wall, which became a cubit narrower at every story, leaving a ledge of one cubit, to support the beams.

there was. Heb. it was, made broader, and went round.

1Ki 6:8; Mt 13:32; Heb 6:1

an enlarging.In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall decreased, the chambers increased, so that the middle story was one cubit larger, and the upper story two cubits larger, than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase, which widened in the same manner as the rooms, ascended from the bottom to the top.

Ezekiel 42:3-14

Over.One side of these buildings looked upon the void space about the temple of twenty cubits, and the other toward the pavement belonging to the outer court.

the twenty.

41:10

the pavement.

40:17,18; 2Ch 7:3

gallery against.

41:15,16; So 1:17; 7:5

before.These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width; with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.

a walk.

a way.

Mt 7:14; Lu 13:24

were higher than these. or, did eat of these.

41:7

than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. or,and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost.

41:6; 1Ki 6:8

before.Passing from the north to the south side of the temple (ver. 11, 12,) the prophet was shewn that the space of ground, which was before the temple on the east, measured 100 cubits.

from under. or, from the place of.

46:19

the entry. or, he that brought me. as one goeth. or, as hecame.

the thickness.Rather, "the breadth of the wall," that is, the breadth of ground which it enclosed.

41:12

over against.These south chambers were exactly like those on the north.

1,13; 41:13-15

2-8

was a door.

they be holy.

Ex 29:31; Le 6:14-16,26; 7:6; 10:13,14,17; 24:9; Nu 18:9

approach.