1 Kings 6:10
8 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.
9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- KJV
- And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- WEB
- He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.
- ASV
- And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- DARBY
- And he built the floors against all the house, five cubits high; and they held to the house by the timbers of cedar.
- BLB
- And he built the couch against all the house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.
- ÅB
- Tilbygningen som han bygget rundt om hele huset, var fem alen høy for hvert stokkverk og var festet til huset ved sederbjelker.
- OTB
- Han bygde også sidekamrene mot hele huset, hver fem alen høye; og de ble festet til huset med bjelker av sedertre.
- B1930
- Tilbygningen som han bygget rundt om hele huset, var fem alen høi for hvert stokkverk og var festet til huset ved sederbjelker.