The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 41:15 (NIV)

Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side;
it was a hundred cubits.

The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:16 (NIV)

as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries round the three of them – everything beyond and including
the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:17 (NIV)

In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all round the inner
and outer sanctuary

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:18 (NIV)

were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:19 (NIV)

the face of a human being towards the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion towards the palm tree on the other.
They were carved all round the whole temple.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:20 (NIV)

From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:21 (NIV)

The main hall had a rectangular door-frame, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:22 (NIV)

There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood.
The man said to me, ‘This is the table that is before the Lord.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:23 (NIV)

Both the main hall and the Most Holy Place had double doors.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:24 (NIV)

Each door had two leaves – two hinged leaves for each door.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:25 (NIV)

And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls,
and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:26 (NIV)

On the side walls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side.
The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:1 (NIV)

Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite
the outer wall on the north side.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:2 (NIV)

The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

 

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Ezekiel 42:3 (NIV)

Both in the section twenty cubits from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court,
gallery faced gallery at the three levels.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:4 (NIV)

In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:5 (NIV)

Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle
floors of the building.

 

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Ezekiel 42:6 (NIV)

The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and
middle floors.

 

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Ezekiel 42:7 (NIV)

There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

 

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Ezekiel 42:8 (NIV)

While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary
was a hundred cubits long.