Ezekiel 41:5 Cross References

Ezekiel 41:5

5: Then he measured the wall of the Temple and found that it was 10 1/2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.

Ezekiel 41:6

  1. These rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these rooms rested on ledges in the Temple wall, but the supports did not extend into the wall.
  2. Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.
  3. I noticed that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1/2 feet high.
  4. The outer wall of the Temple's side rooms was 8 3/4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms

Ezekiel 42:3

  1. One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other.
  2. Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1/2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced toward the north.
  3. Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them.
  4. Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.
  5. There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1/2 feet long.

1 Kings 6:5

  1. A complex of rooms was built against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.
  2. The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1/2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1/2 feet wide. The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.
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