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,
 
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.
 
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
 
Ezekiel 41:18 (NIV)

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