Ezekiel 41:6
4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
- KJV
- And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
- WEB
- The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house.
- ASV
- And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.
- DARBY
- And the side-chambers were three, chamber over chamber, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which the house had for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold; but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
- BLB
- And the side chambers [were] side chamber above side chamber [in] three [stories], thirty per level; and they rested on the ledges that [were] unto the house for the side chambers all around, to be supports; they were not fastened to the wall of the temple.
- ÅB
- Og sidekammerne lå, kammer ved kammer, i tre stokkverk, tretti i hvert stokkverk, og de nådde til den vegg som huset hadde mot sidekammerne rundt omkring, så de var festet; men de var ikke festet til husets vegg.
- OTB
- Siderommene var arrangert i tre nivåer, med tretti rom på hvert nivå. De ble støttet av avsatser på tempelmuren, men støttene trengte ikke inn i selve tempelmuren.
- B1930
- Og sidekammerne lå, kammer ved kammer, i tre stokkverk, tretti i hvert stokkverk, og de nådde til den vegg som huset hadde mot sidekammerne rundt omkring, så de var festet; men de var ikke festet til husets vegg.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 6:10
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
Read in context1 Peter 1:5
who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Read in context1 Kings 6:5–6
Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
Read in contextEzekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
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