1 Kings 6:5-6
5 aHe also built a structure ▼▼Or platform; also verse 10
against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and cthe inner sanctuary. And he made dside chambers all around. 6The lowest story ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew structure, or platform
was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. Ezekiel 41:6-7
6And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, fthirty in each story. There were offsets ▼▼Septuagint, compare 1 Kings 6:6; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, hso that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and iso one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. Ezekiel 42:3-14
3Facing jthe twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing kthe pavement that belonged to the outer court, was lgallery ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown; also verse 5
against gallery in three stories. 4And nbefore the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and oa hundred cubits long, ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew and a way of one cubit
and qtheir doors were on the north. 5Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. 6For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. 7And rthere was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, sfifty cubits long. 8For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite tthe nave ▼▼Or temple
were va hundred cubits long. 9Below these chambers was wan entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. 10In the thickness of xthe wall of the court, on the south ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew east
also, opposite zthe yard and opposite aathe building, there were abchambers 11with aca passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits ▼▼Hebrew and all their exits
and arrangements and aedoors, 12as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before afthe corresponding wall on the east as one enters them. ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
13Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite ahthe yard are the holy chambers, aiwhere the priests who approach the Lord ajshall eat the akmost holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings— althe grain offering, amthe sin offering, and anthe guilt offering—for the place is holy. 14When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court aowithout laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. apThey shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”
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