Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 6:10
And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
10. And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high ] Better with R.V. ‘And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high.’ We ought perhaps to make some allowance for the thickness of floors and roofs. So that the whole height to which this three-storied structure rose may have been much more than 15 cubits, if five cubits were the inside height of each range of rooms. Mr Fergusson (p. 27) says ‘It hardly admits of dispute that with the requisite thickness of their roofs they make up the 20 or 21 cubits which are necessary to bring up their roofs to the level of that of the Holy of Holies.’
they rested on the house ] i.e. On the shoulders or rebatements mentioned in 1Ki 6:6. The other ends of these cedar beams were embedded in the outside wall of the encasing story-work.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Against all the house; which interpreters understand of those chambers described 1Ki 6:5,6. But why should that be repeated again, and that so darkly and confusedly, after he had particularly and exactly treated of them (unless to give an account of the height of each chamber, or story, which before was not done)? And the Hebrew words may be truly and properly rendered thus,
He built a roof (to wit, a flat and plain roof, called yatziah, because of the exact resemblance it hath with the floor of a house) over all the house, according to the manner of all the Israelitish buildings, which were flat at the top; of which see Deu 22:8; Jos 2:6; 2Sa 11:2. The inner roof was arched, 1Ki 6:9, that it might be more beautiful and glorious to behold; but the outward roof was flat.
Five cubits high, above the walls of the temple; which was necessary, that it might be a little higher than the arched roof, which it was designed to cover and secure.
They rested, Heb. it rested, to wit, the roof; for the Hebrew verb is of the singular number.
With timber of cedar; which rested upon the top of the wall, as the chambers, 1Ki 6:5, rested upon the sides of the wall. But all this I submit to the learned and judicious.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. chambers . . . five cubitshighThe height of the whole three stories was therefore aboutfifteen cubits.
they rested on the house withtimber of cedarthat is, because the beams of the side stonesrested on the ledges of the temple wall. The wing was attached to thehouse; it was connected with the temple, without, however,interfering injuriously with the sanctuary [KEIL].
1Ki6:11-14. GOD’SPROMISES UNTO IT.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And [then] he built chambers against all the house five cubits high,…. Which some understand of the same chambers in 1Ki 6:5; here made mention of again for the sake of giving the height of them, not before given; but they were built against, or upon the wall of the house, these against, or rather upon the whole house itself; and are the chambers referred to, [See comments on 1Ki 6:2]; which consisting of three stories of ninety cubits, raised the whole house to an equal height with the porch, 2Ch 3:4; as is there intended x; these are the upper chambers in 2Ch 3:9; and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar; or on the timber of cedar, the beams of cedar, with which the house was covered, as in 1Ki 6:9; on these the chambers rested, being built upon them; and in one of these chambers the disciples might be after Christ’s ascension, Ac 1:13.
x Vid. Joseph. Antiqu. ut supra. (l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2.)
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
10. Chambers five cubits high Literally, Five cubits its height; that is, each chamber or story was five cubits high from floor to ceiling. “Their flooring and roofing being added, they reached together to about eighteen or twenty cubits in height; so that there would be room for the windows of the temple to be opened out, like clear story windows, above them.” Wordsworth.
Rested on the house with timber of cedar Rather, were fastened to ( ) the house by means of cedar beams set into the side-walls or rebatements described 1Ki 6:6.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ki 6:10 And [then] he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house [with] timber of cedar.
Ver. 10. And he built chambers. ] The tabernacle had none such. See on 1Ki 6:5 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: 1Ki 5:6 – cedar trees 2Ki 11:2 – in the bedchamber 1Ch 28:11 – upper chambers Jer 35:2 – into one Eze 41:6 – and they