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4 And he made for the house awindows with beveled frames.  
5 Against the wall of the1 temple he built achambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary band the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.  
6 The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the1 temple.  
7 And athe temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.  
8 The doorway for the1 middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.  
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1 Kings 6:6

Broad - On the inside, and besides the galleries mentioned above. Narrowed rests - Or, narrowings: as in our buildings the walls of an house are thicker, or broader at the bottom, and narrower towards the top: only these narrowings were in the outside of the wall, which at each of the three stories was a cubit narrower than that beneath it. And this is mentioned, as the reason of the differing breadth of the chambers; because the wall being narrower, allowed more space for the upper chambers. Not fastened - That there might be no holes made in the wall for fastening them; and that the chambers might be removed, if occasion were, without any inconvenience to the house.


 
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