CHAPTER 41
Next he brought
me into
the outer sanctuary
and measured
the side pillars
to be six
cubits
wide
on each side.
The width
of the entrance
was ten
cubits,
and the sides
of the entrance
were five
cubits
on each
side.
He also measured
the length of the outer sanctuary
to be forty
cubits,
and the width
twenty
cubits.
Then 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.
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.”
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.
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.
The side rooms
surrounding
the temple
widened at each successive level,
because the structure surrounding the te
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.
I saw
that the temple
had a raised base
all it
around
forming the foundation
for the side rooms.
It was the full length of
a rod,
six
long
cubits.
The outer
wall
of the side rooms
was five
cubits
thick,
and
the open area
between
the side rooms
of the temple
The side rooms
opened into this area,
with one
entrance
on
the north
and another
on the south.
The open area
was five
cubits
wide
all around.
Now the building
that
faced
the temple courtyard
on
the west
was seventy
cubits
wide,
and the wall
of the building
was five
cubits
thick
all
around
and a length
of ninety
cubits.
Then the man measured
the temple
to be a hundred
cubits
long,
and the temple courtyard
and the building
with its walls
were also a hundred
cubits
long.
The width
of the temple courtyard
on the east,
including the front
of the temple,
was a hundred
cubits.
Next he measured
the length
of the building
facing
the temple courtyard
at
the rear of the temple,
including its galleries
on each side;
it was a hundred
cubits.
The outer sanctuary,
the inner sanctuary,
and the porticoes
facing the court,
as well as the thresholds
and the beveled
windows
and the balconies
all around
with their three
levels opposite
the threshold,
were overlaid with
wood
on all sides.
They were paneled from the ground
to
the windows,
and the windows
were covered.
In the space above
the outside of the entrance
to
the inner
sanctuary
on the all the
walls,
spaced evenly
around
the inner and
outer sanctuary,
the face
of a man
was toward
the palm tree
on one side,
and the face
of a young lion
was toward
the palm tree
on the other side.
They were carved
all the way around
the temple.
Cherubim
and palm trees
were carved
on the wall
of the outer sanctuary
from the floor
to
the space above
the entrance.
There was an altar
of wood
three
cubits
high
and two
cubits
square.
It had corners,
a base,
and sides
of wood.
And the man told me,
“This
is the table
that
is before
the LORD.”
Cherubim
and palm trees
like those
on the walls
were carved
on
the doors
of the outer sanctuary,
and there was a wooden
canopy
outside,
on
the front
of the portico.
There were beveled
windows
and palm trees
on the side walls
of the portico.
The side rooms
of the temple
also had canopies.