1And he brought me to the temple , and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side , and six cubits broad on the other side , which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits ; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side , and five cubits on the other side : and he measured the length thereof , forty cubits , and the breadth , twenty cubits . 3Then went he inward , and measured each post of the entrance , two cubits; and the entrance , six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance , seven cubits. 4And he measured the length thereof , twenty cubits, and the breadth , twenty cubits, before the temple : and he said unto me , This is the most holy place . 5Then he measured the wall of the house , six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side .
The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place
6And the side-chambers were in three stories , one over another , and thirty in order ; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about , that they might have hold therein , and not have hold in the wall of the house . 7And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher ; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house : therefore the breadth of the house continued upward ; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber . 8I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about : the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9The thickness of the wall , which was for the side-chambers, on the outside , was five cubits : and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house . 10And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side . 11And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left , one door toward the north , and another door toward the south : and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about . 12And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad ; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about , and the length thereof ninety cubits . 13So he measured the house , a hundred cubits long; and the separate place , and the building , with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 14also the breadth of the face of the house , and of the separate place toward the east , a hundred cubits. 15And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof , and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side , a hundred cubits; and the inner temple , and the porches of the court ; 16the thresholds , and the closed windows , and the galleries round about on their three stories , over against the threshold , ceiled with wood round about , and from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered ),
The Temple's Design and Decoration
17to the space above the door , even unto the inner house , and without , and by all the wall round about within and without , by measure . 18And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub , and every cherub had two faces ; 19so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side , and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side . Thus was it made through all the house round about : 20from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made ; thus was the wall of the temple . 21As for the temple , the door-posts were squared ; and as for the face of the sanctuary , the appearance thereof was as the appearance of the temple . 22The altar was of wood , three cubits high , and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof , and the length thereof , and the walls thereof , were of wood : and he said unto me , This is the table that is before Jehovah . 23And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors . 24And the doors had two leaves apiece , two turning leaves : two leaves for the one door , and two leaves for the other . 25And there were made on them , on the doors of the temple , cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls ; and there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch without . 26And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side , on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house , and the thresholds .