Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 41:6

6 And the side-chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order : And they entred 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.

In three Stories high.

How these thirty in a row were distributed, is not said, some guess twelve on the North side, as many on the South-side, and six on the West; but, as this may be, so possibly it may not be; but we are sure the whole number is Thirty in a row on each story, i. e. 3 times 30 or 90 in all.

Not the five, or six Cubit Wall, which was the Wall of the house, but another Wall of one Cubit thickness, on the top whereof was a rest, or ledge of one Cubit breadth, on which the ends of the Cedar beams were fastned.

'Tis said this was built for the side-chambers, either from the foundation the Wall was made so thick, that at 5 Cubits from the ground they might rebate or draw in the thickness of the ascending Wall one Cubit , or else this Cubit-thick Wall was after added: but this, as not probable, I reject.

That the beams of the Chambers might have good, and firm resting hold

The ends of the Beams were not thrust into the main body of the Wall of the Temple, as we see beams laid into the body of the Walls of houses. But for each story a rebatement of one Cubit in the thickness of the Wall, so that six Cubits thick at the ground, up to the first floor, and five Cubits thick from that to the second floor, and four Cubits thick from the second to the third floor, so each floor rests on a ledge of one Cubit without the Wall, and each Story grows a Cubit broader than that is next lower.

Marginal references: Heb. side[illegible: 2 letters]mber over [illegible: 2 letters]-chamber.; Or, three and [illegible: 2 letters]rty times, or [illegible: 1 word].; Heb. be holden.