Bible Strands
1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes the architectural layout of Solomon’s temple during its construction phase. The account follows the note that iron tools were never heard on site and precedes the description of the cedar roofing.
The words — פֶּ֗תַח (Pe.tach) denotes the physical entrance, while הַ/יְמָנִ֑ית (ha/y.ma.Nit) specifies the southern orientation of that access point. וּ/בְ/לוּלִּ֗ים (u./ve./lu.Lim) identifies the stairway mechanism connecting the levels.
The thread — Ezekiel 41:6 records a parallel three-tiered arrangement of side chambers. The surrounding verses (1 Kings 6:7–9) anchor this description within the sequential construction and completion of the sanctuary.
Why it lands — The text demands attention to the deliberate spatial planning and vertical access of the sacred building. It requires the reader to track how structural details map the temple’s progression from foundation to finished roof.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 41:6 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.