1 Kings 6:5-6

6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. ¹  6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet ²  wide, the middle floor nine feet ³  wide, and the third floor ten and a half ⁴  feet wide. He made ledges ⁵  on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. ⁶ 

1 Kings 6:8

6:8 The entrance to the bottom ⁷  level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up ⁸  to the middle floor and then on up to the third ⁹  floor.

1 Kings 6:10

6:10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high ¹⁰  and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

Jeremiah 35:2

35:2 “Go to the Rechabite community. ¹¹  Invite them to come into one of the side rooms ¹²  of the Lord’s temple and offer them some wine to drink.”

Ezekiel 40:45

40:45 He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”

² tn Heb “five cubits.”

³ tn Heb “six cubits.”

⁴ tn Heb “seven cubits.”

⁵ tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”

⁶ tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”

⁷ tc The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.

⁸ tn Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”

⁹ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashÿlishit, “the third”) rather than MT הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashÿlishim, “the thirty”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.

¹¹ tn Heb “the house of the Rechabites.” “House” is used here in terms of “household” or “family” (cf. BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת 5.a, b).

¹² sn This refers to one of the rooms built on the outside of the temple that were used as living quarters for the priests and for storage rooms (cf. Neh 13:4-5; 1 Kgs 6:5; 1 Chr 28:12; 2 Chr 31:11 and compare Ezek 41:1-14).

¹³ tn Heb “the house.”