1 Kings 6:8
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.
1 Kings 6:8 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third. |
| ASV | The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third. |
| YLT | The opening of the middle side is at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third. |
| DARBY | The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle floor was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third. |
| BBE | The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third. |
| Webster | 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; |
What does 1 Kings 6:8 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 6:1-10
The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the Lord, which was far beyond all other beauties. It was to be the temple of the God of peace, therefore no iron tool must be heard; quietness and silence suit and help religious exercises. God's work should be done with much…
1 Kings 6:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 6:8
- Ezekiel 41:6-7
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
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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.
- 1 Kings 6:8
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.
- 1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings 6:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | La puerta del aposento de en medio estaba al lado derecho de la casa: y subíase por un caracol al de en medio, y del aposento de en medio al tercero. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’entrée des chambres latérales de l’étage du milieu était du côté droit de la maison; et on montait par un escalier tournant à l’étage du milieu, et de celui du milieu au troisième. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Der Eingang der mittleren Seitenzimmer war an der rechten Seite des Hauses; und mittelst Wendeltreppen stieg man zu den mittleren, und von den mittleren zu den dritten hinauf. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ostium lateris medii in parte erat domus dextræ: et per cochleam ascendebant in medium cœnaculum, et a medio in tertium. |