Bible Strands
1 Kings 6:10
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Solomon completes the temple’s cedar roof and immediately adds structural chambers along its outer walls, positioning the narrative right before the Lord interrupts the construction account with a direct address.
The words — יִבֶן (yi.ven) = he built, and יָצִיעַ (ya.tzi.a) = extension or raised chambers, which the text places at a fixed height of five cubits and secures to the main structure with cedar beams.
The thread — The five-cubit measurement and cedar attachment recur in the temple’s later architectural descriptions (1 Kings 7:2; 2 Chronicles 3:3), and the chamber construction continues in 1 Kings 6:14–15 before the divine speech in 6:11.
Why it lands — It demands attention to the deliberate integration of functional space into sacred architecture and marks the shift from human building labor to divine instruction.
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The Hebrew words
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.