against the wall] Or, upon, or joyning to. There were two thick walls that compassed the house about, for the greater strength thereof: betwixt these walls were chambers built for the priests and Levites use, and for the treasury of the temple, as first-fruits, tythes, free-offerings, and the like, 1 Chron. 2. 11. 2 Chron. 31. 11, 12. Ezr. 8. 29. Neh. 10. 37, 38, 39. and 13. 5. Ezekiel 42:13. chambers] Heb. floors. temple] The outer and larger part of the house, where all sorts of priests and Levites did their services, v. 17. oracle] The innermost part, whereinto the high priest, and that but once a yeer, might enter: called the oracle, because there God delivered divine answers or oracles, Leviticus 16:2. Exodus 30:6. chambers] Heb. ribs.