Dual Panel1He brought me into the sanctuary and measured the pilasters; they were six cubits wide on each side.
2The entrance was ten cubits wide and its corners five cubits wide in each direction. He measured the length of the sanctuary; it was forty cubits, and its width twenty.
3He went into the inner sanctuary and measured the pilasters at the entrance: they were two cubits; the entrance itself was six cubits, and the corners of the entrance were seven cubits in each direction.
4Then he measured the room at the far end of the sanctuary; its length and its breadth were each twenty cubits. He said to me, “This is the Holy of Holies.”
5The man measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits high, and each arcade all round the temple was four cubits wide.
6The arcades were arranged in three tiers, each tier in thirty sections. In the wall all round the temple there were rebatements for the arcades, so that they could be supported without being fastened into the wall of the temple.
7The higher up the arcades were, the broader they were all round by the addition of the rebatements, one above the other all round the temple; the temple itself had a ramp running upwards on a base, and in this way there was access from the lowest to the highest tier by way of the middle tier.
8I saw the temple had a raised pavement all round it, and the foundations of the arcades were flush with it and measured a full rod, six cubits high.
9The outer wall of the arcades was five cubits thick. There was an unoccupied area beside the terrace which was adjacent to the temple,
10There was a free space twenty cubits wide all round the temple.
11and the arcades opened on to this area, one opening facing north and one south; the unoccupied area was five cubits wide on all sides.
12On the western side, at the far end of the free space, stood a building seventy cubits wide; its wall was five cubits thick all round, and its length ninety cubits.
13The man measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long; the free space, the building, and its walls came to a hundred cubits in all.
14The east front of the temple along with the free space was a hundred cubits wide.
15He measured the length of the building at the far end of the free space to the west of the temple, and its corridors on each side: a hundred cubits. The sanctuary, the inner shrine, and the outer vestibule were panelled;
16the embrasures around the three of them were framed with wood all round. From the ground up to the windows
17and above the door, in both the inner and outer chambers, round all the walls, inside and out,
18were carved figures, cherubim and palm trees, one palm tree between every pair of cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:
19one the face of a man, looking towards one palm tree, and the other the face of a lion, looking towards the palm tree on its other side. Such was the carving round the whole of the temple.
20The cherubim and the palm trees were carved on the walls from the ground up to the top of the doorway.
21The doorposts of the sanctuary were square. In front of the Holy Place was what seemed
22an altar of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long; it was fitted with corner-posts, and its base and sides also were of wood. He told me that this was the table which stands before the LORD.
23The sanctuary had a double door, as also had the Holy Place:
24the double doors had hinged leaves, a pair for each door.
25Carved on them were cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls. Outside there was a wooden cornice over the vestibule;
26on both sides of the vestibule were embrasures, with palm trees carved at the corners.