Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 28:11

11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch , and of the houses thereof , and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof , and of the place of the mercy-seat .

To wit, of the Temple; which is necessarily to be understood.

Either 1. the Houses of the Porch, so called because they went thorough the Porch into them. Or rather 2. the Houses of the Temple manifestly understood in the next foregoing. Clause of this Verse; to wit, the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies; which may well pass for two Houses, because they were separated by a Partition; and because they were of differing Dimensions, as appears by 1 King. 6. 2, 20. especially seeing the Holy Place is called the greater House, 2 Chron. 3. 5. comparatively to the Holy of Holies, which was the lesser House, and so you have two Houses.

By these he seems to understand all those Rooms which were made against the Wall of the House round about, as is said 1 King. 6. 5. which are here called by divers names according to the difference of their situation or use.

i. e. In what particular part of the Holy of Holies it was to be placed.