1 Kings 6:8
The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.
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- Ezek 41:6-7 : 6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
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- Ezek 41:5-117 verses82%
5 Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.
6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.
7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.
9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple
10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.
11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around.
- 1 Kgs 6:3-75 verses80%
3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple.
4 He made framed windows for the temple.
5 He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.
6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.
7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
- Ezek 42:3-64 verses77%
3 Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.
4 In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, and their entrances were on the north.
5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
6 For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and middle ones.
- 1 Kgs 6:9-102 verses77%
9 He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.
10 He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.
- Ezek 42:9-124 verses76%
9 Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.
10 At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers
11 with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. Of the same length and width, and all their exits according to their arrangements and entrances
12 were the chambers which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters.
- Ezek 41:16-172 verses76%
16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows(now the windows were covered),
17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.
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37 Its jambs faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.
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36 He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.
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34 Its porches faced the outer court, it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
- 1 Kgs 6:16-183 verses74%
16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.
17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
18 The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
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3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.
- Ezek 40:6-72 verses74%
6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
7 The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.
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1 Chambers for the Temple Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.
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26 There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
- 1 Kgs 6:30-312 verses73%
30 He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.
31 He made doors of olive wood at the entrance to the inner sanctuary; the pillar on each doorpost was five-sided.
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31 Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
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34 He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.
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10 There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.
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12 Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the LORD’s temple and the hall of the palace.
- 1 Kgs 7:5-62 verses72%
5 All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.
6 He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.
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5 He paneled the main hall with boards made from evergreen trees and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains.
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22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
- Ezek 40:12-132 verses71%
12 There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.
13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.
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37 They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.
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49 The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
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3 (The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)