Holy Scripture
1 Kings 6:9
A church father on this verse
“Ceilings are boardwork constructed and adorned with great beauty and fixed to the beams on the lower side, and because the house of the Lord had been built three times the double height, naturally it had three ceilings. What is more fitting for us to believe than these ceilings signify all the just people of most exal…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.
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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.
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.
— 1 Kings 6:9 —
10And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.