The Meaning of 1 Kings 6:8 Explained

1 Kings 6:8

KJV: The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

YLT: The opening of the middle side is at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third.

Darby: The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle floor was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

ASV: The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle'story , and out of the middle into the third.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of 1 Kings 6:8?

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What is the context of 1 Kings 6:8?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The door for the middle chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.

What does 1 Kings 6:8 Mean?

Context Summary

1 Kings 6:1-13 - The Plan Of The Lord's House

The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given to David by revelation, 1 Chronicles 28:11-12. Seven years and a half were consumed in its erection. It was completed in sacred silence, 1 Kings 6:7. The awful sanctity of the shrine would have been violated if its construction had been marred by the harsh and violent sounds that generally accompany the mason's toil. "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprang." In nature, God works so silently that we do not realize His activities.

The central motive was to provide a place worthy to be called the house of God. Israel was now ruled by a king, but he was viewed as the organ and instrument of Jehovah. It was fitting, therefore, that the King of kings should have a dwelling-place among the people of Israel. The tabernacle of God was with men. He dwelled with them on the earth. The Temple was, moreover, the type, first of the body of Jesus, John 2:21; then of each believer, 1 Corinthians 3:16; and lastly of the whole Church, Ephesians 2:21-22. Each of these is the dwelling-place of God, and the innermost chamber-the Holy of Holies-is meant to be the throne-room of the Shekinah of His presence, Leviticus 16:2.

1 Kings 6:1-38 - Breaking Three Commandments

From a worldly point of view Naboth might have done a good stroke of business by selling his estate to. Ahab. A royal price and assured favor might have been his-but he had a conscience! Above the persuasive tones of the monarch's offer sounded the voice of God: "The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine." See Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18.

Ahab knew perfectly well that Jezebel could not give him the property of another except by foul means, but he took pains not to inquire. Though the direct orders for Naboth's death did not come from him, yet, by his silence, he was an accomplice and an accessory; and divine justice penetrates all such specious excuses. God holds us responsible for wrongs which we do not arrest, though we have the power. The crime was blacker because of the pretext of religion, as suggested by a fast. See also 2 Kings 9:26. The blood of murdered innocence cries to God, and his requital, though delayed, is inevitable. See Revelation 6:9-10. [source]

Chapter Summary: 1 Kings 6

¹ The building of Solomon's temple
⁵ The chambers thereof
¹¹ God's promise unto it
¹⁵ The ceiling and adorning of it
²³ The cherubim
³¹ The doors
³⁶ The court
³⁷ The time of building it

What do the individual words in 1 Kings 6:8 mean?

The doorway [was] the story for middle on side of the temple the right and by stairs they went up the middle [story] and from the middle to the third

פֶּ֗תַח הַצֵּלָע֙ הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה אֶל־ כֶּ֥תֶף הַבַּ֖יִת הַיְמָנִ֑ית וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים יַֽעֲלוּ֙ עַל־ הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה וּמִן־ הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה אֶל־ הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים

פֶּ֗תַח	The doorway [was]
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: פֶּתַח Sense: opening, doorway, entrance.
הַצֵּלָע֙	the story for
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: צֵלָע Sense: side, rib, beam.
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה	middle
Parse: Article, Adjective, feminine singular Root: תִּיכֹון Sense: middle.
כֶּ֥תֶף	side
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct Root: כָּתֵף Sense: shoulder, shoulder-blade, side, slope.
הַבַּ֖יִת	of the temple
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: בַּיִת Sense: house.
הַיְמָנִ֑ית	the right
Parse: Article, Adjective, feminine singular Root: יְמָינִי Sense: right, right hand.
וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים	and by stairs
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural Root: לוּל Sense: staircase, winding stair, shaft or enclosed space with steps or ladder.
יַֽעֲלוּ֙	they went
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: סָלַק Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
עַל־	up
Parse: Preposition Root: עַל Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה	the middle [story]
Parse: Article, Adjective, feminine singular Root: תִּיכֹון Sense: middle.
וּמִן־	and from
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition Root: מִן Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.
הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה	the middle
Parse: Article, Adjective, feminine singular Root: תִּיכֹון Sense: middle.
הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים	the third
Parse: Article, Number, ordinal masculine plural Root: שְׁלִישִׁי Sense: third, one third, third part, third time.

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