The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Middle side. Septuagint “lower story.” Calmet.—“The door of the lower story (rib or side, πλευρας; Chal. the lower appendage) was under the right wing of the house, and a winding staircase led to the middle, and from the middle to the third story. Bible.—This sense is very clear. Hebrew intimates that the staircase was round like a screw, and was formed in the wall, at one end of the rooms.—Right hand of those who entered the temple, or on the north; though the south is commonly thus designated. The doors opened into the porch, as the temple was not to be made a thoroughfare. Calmet.