Holy Scripture

1 Kings 6:8

A church father on this verse
“The way to the upper and third [parts of the] building was made through the innermost part of the southern wall, as if by an invisible entrance, so that only its beginning might be evident from the eastern corner of the before-mentioned [southern] wall. Only he who could climb [it] knew the progress of this ascent, of…”
Bede, 8th c. — Homilies on the Gospels 2.1

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.

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6The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.

7And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.

— 1 Kings 6:8 —

9So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

10And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.

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