Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.
but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.
Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—
Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.
And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.
For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.
for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.
And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.
There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.
And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.
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