. Kings : introduction,Revised version with notes, index and map . description immediatelypasses. Properly, it means bed (flat surface ?) ; and it mightfairly be questioned if it has anything to do with the cells at all,though no other plausible interpretation suggests itself. round about, against the walls of the house: omit thesewords, and read simply : - round about the temple and the oracle (so LXX (B) and (L)). On the oracle see on verse i6. side-chambers: or, cells (lif. ribs). In Ezekiels templethere were thirty such cells in each of the three stories ; their usewould be for storing the
. Kings : introduction,Revised version with notes, index and map . description immediatelypasses. Properly, it means bed (flat surface ?) ; and it mightfairly be questioned if it has anything to do with the cells at all,though no other plausible interpretation suggests itself. round about, against the walls of the house: omit thesewords, and read simply : - round about the temple and the oracle (so LXX (B) and (L)). On the oracle see on verse i6. side-chambers: or, cells (lif. ribs). In Ezekiels templethere were thirty such cells in each of the three stories ; their usewould be for storing the treasures, and gifts of all kinds of producepertaining to a great national sanctuary. 6. the nethermost story: read with LXX, * the nethermostcell, or rather, ^ row of cells. The widening of the upper storiesis caused by rebatements or contractions on the outside of theinner wall. If (as is probable) corresponding ledges were madeon the inside of the outer wall, the depth of each rebatement wouldbe half a cubit. Thus the beams which made the ceiling of the I07. io8 I KINGS 6. 7-10. TZT broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and thethird was seven cubits broad: for on the outside hemade rebatements in the wall of the house round about,that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the 7 house. [Z] And the house, when it was in building,was built of stone made ready at the quarry: and therewas neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard 8 in the house, while it was in building. [Tj The doorfor the middle side-chambers was in the right side of thehouse: and they went up by winding stairs into themiddle chambers^ and out of the middle into the third. 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he coveredro the house with beams and planks of cedar. And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits lower cell and the floor of the upper were supported on the wall,instead of < taking hold of it by piercing the surface. *J, The verse interrupts the d
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