[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:17, 19] Then he brought me to the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement made round about the court; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.  And he measured its breadth from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court without, one hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:20, 21b, 24b] And the north gateway of the outer court, he measured its length and breadth.  And its measurements were the same as those of the east gateway.  The dimensions of the gateway on the south were also the same as the others.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:44-47] He brought me outside the gate and into the inner court, and there were two chambers on the inner court, one by the north gate, facing the south, and the other by the south gate, facing the north.  And he said to me, This chamber which faces the south is for the priests who have charge of the temple; and the chamber which faces the north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, those of the sons of Levi who may be near to Jehovah to serve him.  And he measured the court, a hundred cubits wide, and a hundred cubits broad—­a perfect square.  The altar was in front of the temple.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 41:1,2] Then he brought me into the hall of the temple and measured the jambs, six cubits on each side.  And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side; and he measured its length, forty cubits; and its width, twenty cubits.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 41:3, 4] Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of its entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the side-walls of the entrance, seven cubits on each side.  And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, before the hall of the temple.  And he said to me, This is the most holy place.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 41:5-8a] Then he measured the thickness of the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the temple on every side.  And the side-chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and there were abatements all around the walls of the temple that the side-chambers might be fastened to them and not to the walls of the temple.  And the side-chambers became wider as they went up higher and higher, for the temple grew narrower higher up; and there was an ascent from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.  And I saw also that the temple had a raised platform round about.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 43:1-5] Then he brought me to the east gate.  And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the east; and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with his glory.  And the vision which I saw was like that which I saw when he came to destroy the city; and the visions were like that which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face.  Then the glory of Jehovah came into the temple through the east gate.  And the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the temple.