Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 6:10

10 And then he built chambers against all the house , five cubits high : and they rested on the house with timber of cedar .

Which Interpreters understand of those Chambers described ver. 5, 6. But why should that be repeated again, and that so darkly and confusedly, after he had particularly and exactly treated of them? (unless to give an account of the height of each Chamber, or Story, which before was not done.) And the Hebrew words may be truly and properly rendred thus, He built a roof, (to wit, a flat and plain Roof, called Yatziah, because of the exact resemblance it hath with the Floor of an House) over all the house, according to the manner of all the Israelitish Buildings, which were flat at the top; of which, See Deut. 22. 8. Iosh. 2. 6. 2 Sam. 11. 2. The inner Roof was Arched, ver. 9. that it might be more beautiful and glorious to behold; but the outward Roof was flat.

Above the Walls of the Temple; which was necessary, that it might be a little higher than the Arched Roof, which it was designed to cover and secure.

Heb. it rested, to wit, the Roof: for the Hebrew Verb is of the singular Number.

Which rested upon the top of the Wall, as the Chambers, ver. 5, 6. rested upon the sides of the Wall. But all this I submit to the Learned and Judicious.