5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
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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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square. I. Here is a description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that ti…
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