Verse 8
8. The door for the middle chamber was in the right side The middle chamber of the lower story is here meant. The right side of the house would be the south side, and is to be understood of a person facing the same way as the temple, namely, the east. So far as the scripture text gives us any information, this one door in the south side seems to have been the only entrance into all of the side-chambers. (D in plan.)
They went up That is, persons who entered the upper stories went up these stairs.
Winding stairs Marked s in plan.
Middle That is, the middle chamber of the middle story.
Out of the middle into the third Out of the middle chamber of the middle story into the middle chamber of the third story. So the staircase was not on the outside of the house, as is usual in the East, but on the inside. No mention is made of windows in the side-chambers, but this is naturally inferred from 1 Kings 6:4, where see note.
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