The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

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The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty(A) on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.(B)

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The entrance to the lowest[a] floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:8 Septuagint; Hebrew middle

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