After he measured the wall of the house six cubits] That is, from the ground upward: which space both in the Oracle and in the holy place was carved with Cherubims and Palmetrees, vers. 20. and the breadth of every side chamber] As 1 Kings 6:5. There were chambers built round about the house, both Temple and Oracle, for the laying up of holy things: And these chambers were three stories high, or one over another: Now for the support or foundation of these, there ws a wall on the outside of the house, vers. 9. which was set as a border round about the house, so that the chambers rested not upon the wall of the house, but upon this, vers. 6. This wall and chambers were only upon the North and South sides, and at the West end, though it be said, that they were incompassing the Temple round about: for the East end had no such thing to stand before it, but stood cleare and open, save that the cloysters tooke up about one third part or something more of the height of the front. Now these chambers were so distributed about the building, that on either side of the house there were four ranks of them, of three stories in every rank, and two such ranks at the West end, thirtie chambers in the whole summe.