1 Reyes 6:8

8 La entrada al piso inferior^[a] se hallaba en el lado sur del templo; una escalera de caracol conducía al nivel intermedio y a la planta alta.

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 del anexo medía dos metros con veinticinco centímetros de ancho; el piso intermedio, dos metros con setenta centímetros, y el piso más alto, tres metros con quince centímetros. Salomón había mandado hacer salientes en el exterior del templo para que las vigas no se empotraran en la pared misma.

7 En la construcción del templo solo se emplearon piedras de cantera ya labradas, así que durante las obras no se oyó el ruido de martillos ni de piquetas, ni de ninguna otra herramienta.

8 La entrada al piso inferior se hallaba en el lado sur del templo; una escalera de caracol conducía al nivel intermedio y a la planta alta.

9 Salomón terminó de construir el templo techándolo con vigas y tablones de cedro.

10 A lo largo del templo construyó el anexo, el cual tenía una altura de dos metros con veinticinco centímetros y quedaba unido a la pared del templo por medio de vigas de cedro.

Footnotes

• [a]. "inferior " (LXX y Targum); "intermedio " (TM).