And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Height. To prevent the excessive heats. Five other cubits were also subtracted, ver. 20. Some translate, "he made also stories of all the temple, each five cubits high "so that the three stories occupied half the height of the walls, which were 30 cubits in height, ver. 2. (Calmet)
Covered. Hebrew, "took (or bound together) the house "The roof was flat. (Calmet)
Villalpand maintains the contrary, (in Ezechiel xli.) with Sanchez Salien gathers from many of the ancients, that the floor here mentioned, was a balustrade, or the pinnacle of the temple, (Matthew iv.) where people might walk or pray. (Menochius)
