The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.
NIV
These side chambers were three stories high, one over another and thirty in each story; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold of the wall [of the house], but they did not have hold of the wall of the temple.
AMP
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
KJV
He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway – sixty cubits. The measurement was up to the portico facing the courtyard.
NIV
And the open part of the porch or vestibule of the gateway on the outside was twenty cubits, the chambers or guardrooms of the gate being round about.
AMP
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
KJV
Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.
NIV
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick [to accommodate side chambers]; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the temple proper on every side.
AMP
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
KJV
Around the inside of each of the four courts was a ledge of stone, with places for fire built all around under the ledge.
NIV
And there was a row of masonry inside them, round about [each of] the four courts, and it was made with hearths for boiling at the bottom of the rows round about.
AMP
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
KJV
The bases for the surrounding courtyard and those for its entrance and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and those for the surrounding courtyard.
NIV
The sockets of the court round about and of the court gate, and all the pegs of the tabernacle and around the court.
AMP
And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
KJV
