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3 Kings 6:5

And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about, in the walls of the house round about the temple and the oracle, and he made sides round about.

Challoner: Upon the walli. e. joining to the wall.-- Ibid.

Challoner: He built floors round aboutChambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and outward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.-- Ibid.

Challoner: The oracleThe inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his oracles.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et ædificavit super parietem templi tabulata per gyrum, in parietibus domus per circuitum templi et oraculi, et fecit latera in circuitu.
Septuagint (Swete) shown from 3 Kings 6:10: καὶ ἔδωκεν ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν τοῖχον τοῦ οἴκου μέλαθρα κυκλόθεν τῷ ναῷ καὶ τῷ δαβείρ.
Hebrew (WLC): וַיִּבֶן֩ עַל קִ֨יר הַבַּ֤יִת יצוע סָבִ֔יב אֶת קִיר֤וֹת הַבַּ֨יִת֙ סָבִ֔יב לַֽהֵיכָ֖ל וְלַדְּבִ֑יר וַיַּ֥עַשׂ צְלָע֖וֹת סָבִֽיב

Haydock's commentary

Upon the wall. That is, joining to the wall.

He built floors round about. Chambers or cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of the temple and of the priests, so contrived as to be between the inward and outward wall of the temple, in three stories, one above another.

The oracle. The inner temple or holy of holies, where God gave his oracles. (Challoner)

Sides. Protestants, "he made chambers round about." (Haydock)

Some think that buttresses were used, to strengthen the building. Septuagint, "ribs," (Menochius) or sides. But there seem rather to have been three off-sets; so that the wall kept decreasing in breadth, as it grew higher, (Haydock) every ten cubits, (Ezechiel xli. 6.; Menochius) and thus the upper chamber was two cubits broader than the lowest. The beams might thus rest upon the walls, and be easily changed. (Haydock)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.