1Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the jambs;41:1 Ezk 40:2–3,17 on each side the width of the jamb was 10½ feet.41:1 LXX; MT reads jambs; they were 10½ feet wide on each side — the width of the tabernacle41:1 Lit six cubits, also in vv. 3,5

2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet,41:2 Lit 10 cubits and the side walls of the entrance were 8¾ feet41:2 Lit five cubits, also in vv. 9,11,12 wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet,41:2 Lit 40 cubits and the width, 35 feet.41:2 Lit 20 cubits, also in vv. 4,1041:2 1Kg 6:2,17

3He went inside the next room and measured the jambs at the entrance;41:3 Ezk 40:16 they were 3½ feet41:3 Lit two cubits, also in v. 22 wide. The entrance was 10½ feet wide, and the width of the entrance’s side walls on each side41:3 LXX; MT reads width of the entrance was 12¼ feet.41:3 Lit seven cubits

4He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet.41:4 1Kg 6:20 And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”41:4 1Kg 6:16

5Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet.41:5 Lit four cubits41:5 1Kg 6:5–10

6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each.41:6 Lit another three and thirty times There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.41:6 1Kg 6:6

7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.41:7 Hb obscure41:7 1Kg 6:8

16the thresholds, the beveled windows,41:16 1Kg 6:4; Ezk 40:16,25 and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold — were overlaid with wood on all sides.41:16 1Kg 6:15 They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

17reaching to the top of the entrance, and as far as the inner temple and on the outside. On every wall all around, on the inside and outside, was a pattern

18carved with cherubim and palm trees.41:18 1Kg 6:29 There was a palm tree between each pair of cherubim.41:18 2Ch 3:5; Ezk 40:16 Each cherub had two faces:

19a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side,41:19 Ezk 1:10; 10:14 and a lion’s face turned toward it on the other. They were carved throughout the temple on all sides.

20Cherubim and palm trees were carved from the ground to the top of the entrance and on the wall of the great hall.