He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar. Cross References 1 Kings 6:9 So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar. 1 Kings 6:11 Then the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying: Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs. 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. Treasury of Scripture And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. |