The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.(A)

The door for the lowest[a] side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They[b] went up a stairway[c] to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third. When he finished building the temple,(B) he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:8 LXX, Tg; MT reads middle
  2. 6:8 = People
  3. 6:8 Hb obscure

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