Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
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Gill's Exposition
Now the upper chambers were shorter,.... The chambers were in three stories, as in the following verse, one above another; the middlemost were shorter than the lowermost, and the upper shorter than…
Barnes' Notes
Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the middle-most, chambers, of the building.” The building rose in terraces, as was usual…
The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square.
I. Here is a…
Cambridge Bible
The uppermost story was contracted by the gallery, so that its area was smaller than that of the other two stories.