Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits. Cross References 1 Kings 6:5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms. Ezekiel 41:6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself. Ezekiel 41:11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around. Ezekiel 41:26 There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies. Treasury of Scripture After 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. side chamber Ezekiel 41:6,7 Ezekiel 42:3-14 1 Kings 6:5,6 |