1 Reyes 6:8

8 La entrada a la cámara lateral inferior estaba al lado derecho de la casa; y se subía por una escalera de caracol al piso del medio, y del medio al tercero.

1 Reyes 6:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 6:8

The door of the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the
house
The south side of it:

and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber];
which were outside the chambers, and which winded about for the sake of taking up less room, and which led up to the door of the middle chamber, on the south of which they went into it; according to the Vulgate Latin and Tigurine versions, they went up in the forth of a cockle, or the shell of a snail; in like manner as was the ascent of the temple of Pan at Alexandria, as Strabo ^F21 relates:

and out of the middle into the third;
the third chamber, and by winding stairs up to that; and the like might be on the north side, though not expressed, and on the west: the Jews say ^F23, that in the second temple, these winding stairs went from the northeast to the northwest, whereby they went up to the roof of the chambers, and so to the south and west; with this compare ( Ezekiel 41:7 ) ; and which may represent the windings and turnings of God's people in this present state, their many afflictions and tribulations, through which they pass from one state to another.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Geograph. l. 17. p. 547.
F23 Misn. Middot, c. 4. sect. 5. See Lightfoot's Prospect of the Temple c. 12. p. 1071.

1 Reyes 6:8 In-Context

6 El piso inferior tenía cinco codos de ancho, y el del medio tenía seis codos de ancho, y el tercero tenía siete codos de ancho; porque por fuera hizo rebajos en la pared de la casa por todo alrededor para no empotrar las vigas en las paredes de la casa.

7 La casa, mientras se edificaba, se construía de piedras preparadas en la cantera; y no se oyó ni martillo ni hacha ni ningún instrumento de hierro en la casa mientras la construían.

8 La entrada a la cámara lateral inferior estaba al lado derecho de la casa; y se subía por una escalera de caracol al piso del medio, y del medio al tercero.

9 Edificó, pues, la casa y la terminó; y cubrió la casa con vigas y tablas de cedro.

10 También edificó pisos junto a toda la casa, cada uno de cinco codos de alto, y estaban asegurados a la casa con vigas de cedro.

Footnotes

• [a] As en la versin gr. (Sept.) y otras versiones antiguas; en el T.M., del medio