Douay-Rheims Bible: 3 Kings — Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Notes by Richard Challoner
Chapter 6
SummaryThe building of Solomon 's temple.
[6:5] Upon the wall, i. e., joining to the wall. — Ibid. He built floors round about. . . Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and outward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another. — Ibid. The oracle. . . The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his oracles.
[6:7] Made ready, etc. . .So the stones for the building of God's eternal temple in the heavenly Jerusalem, ( who are the faithful,) must first be hewn and polished here by many trials and sufferings, before they can be admitted to have a place in that celestial structure.