KJV King James Version
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Kings 6:10
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
WEB World English Bible
He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
ASV American Standard Version
And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits is its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 6
7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
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.
10 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:
13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
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וַיִּ֤בֶןH1129 · ba.nahto buildאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיָּצִ֙יעַ֙H3326 · ya.tsu.abedעַל־H5921 · aluponכָּל־H3605 · kolallהַבַּ֔יִתH1004 · betplaceחָמֵ֥שׁH2568 · cha.meshfiveאַמּ֖וֹתH520 · am.mahcubitקֽוֹמָת֑וֹH6967 · qo.mahheightוַיֶּאֱחֹ֥זH270 · a.chazto graspאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַבַּ֖יִתH1004 · betplaceבַּעֲצֵ֥יH6086 · etstree: woodאֲרָזִֽים׃ פH730 · e.rezcedar
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