Verse 17

The ledge is 24½ feet long and 24½ feet wide on four sides; the border around it is 10½ inches, and its surrounding base 1¾ feet. Its steps face east.”

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:26 : 26 And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’
• Ezek 40:6 : 6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
• Exod 25:25 : 25 You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.
• Exod 30:3 : 3 You are to overlay it with pure gold– its top, its four walls, and its horns– and make a surrounding border of gold for it.
• 1 Kgs 6:8 : 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.
• 1 Kgs 18:32 : 32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the LORD. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.
• Neh 9:4 : 4 Then the Levites– Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani– stood on the steps and called out loudly to the LORD their God.
• Ezek 8:16 : 16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house. Right there at the entrance to the LORD’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the LORD’s temple, facing east– they were worshiping the sun toward the east!