6:5a Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary,

Against the walls of the main temple hall and its holy/sacred place,
-or-
Supported by the walls of the main temple and its inner holy room

6:5b Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple,

Solomon had an annex built around the temple.
-or-
they built an extension. It surrounded the temple building.

6:5c in which he constructed the side rooms.

In it ⌊he had made/built⌋ some side rooms.
-or-
Inside the extension was ⌊a set of⌋ small rooms.

6:5a-c (reordered)

Solomon built an ⌊additional⌋ structure against the ⌊outside⌋ walls of the temple and its inner room/sanctuary. This structure contained ⌊various⌋ small rooms.

© 2020 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.