Discovery Box1 Kings 6:5-6 
Context6:5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. 1 6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet 2 wide, the middle floor nine feet 3 wide, and the third floor ten and a half 4 feet wide. He made ledges 5 on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. 6
1 tn Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”
2 tn Heb “five cubits.”
3 tn Heb “six cubits.”
4 tn Heb “seven cubits.”
5 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”
6 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
