Ezekiel 41:5

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Ezekiel 41:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.

4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

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Ezekiel 41:6

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

Ezekiel 41:7

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

Ezekiel 42:3

Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.

Ezekiel 42:4

In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Ezekiel 42:6

For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

Ezekiel 42:7

An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

Ezekiel 42:8

For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

Ezekiel 42:9

And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

Ezekiel 42:10

On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

Ezekiel 42:11

with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions.

Ezekiel 42:12

And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.

Ezekiel 42:13

Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

Ezekiel 42:14

Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

1 Kings 6:5

Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

1 Kings 6:6

The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.