He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timbers of cedar.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Height. To prevent the excessive heats. Five other cubits were also subtracted, verse 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, verse 2. Calmet.—Covered. Hebrew “took (or bound together) the house,” and so forth The roof was flat. Calmet.—Villalpand maintains the contrary, (in Ezekiel 41) with Sanchez, and so forth Salien gathers from many of the ancients, that the floor here mentioned, was a balustrade, or the pinnacle of the temple, (Matthew 4) where people might walk or pray. Menochius.