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Chapter

Fifih.

1 Ezek. xl.12, 26, 31,3h 3 7-

Plute II andILL

■ b 1 King. vi,36. &c vii. 1.F.ztk. xl. 1;n 8.

* Ezek. xl.>9' j* 34>57-

Piate I.

4 1 KitiCT. vi.zb» & vii. 1 2 .

e Ezek. xl.1 7-

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G H R O N O L O G Y,

Shallechcth and Parbar ; and the houfe of the porters who hadthe charge of the fouth gate of the People’s Court, had alio thecharge of the other two gates ealled Afuppim.

III. They came through the four weiiern gates into theMountainof the Houfe ; and a went up from the Mountain of the Houfeto the gates of the People’s Court by feven lfeps, and from the•People’s Court to the gates of the Prielfs Court by eight lfeps:and the arches in the lides of the gates of both courts led intocloytfers b under a double building, fupported by three rows of| marble pili ars, which butted diredfly upon the middles of thefq-uare polis, and ran along from thence upon the pavements to-wards the corners of the courts. The axes of the pillars in themiddle row being eleven cubits diifant from the axes of the pil-lars in the other two rows on either hand; and the buildingjoining to the lides of the gates : the pillars were three cubitsin diameter beiow, and their bales four cubits and an half fquare.The gates and buildings of both courts were alike, and c facedtheir courts: the cloylters of ali the buildings, and the porchesof ali the gates looking towards the Altar. The row of pillars011 the backlides of the cloylters adhered to marble walls, whichbounded the cloylters and fupported the buildings. Thefe build-ings were three Itories high above the cloylters, and d were fup-ported in each of thole Itories by a row of cedar beams, or pil-lars of cedar, Itanding above the middle row of the marble pil-lars : the buildings on either lide of every gate of the People’sCourt being 187^ cubits long, were diftinguilhed into 6ve cham-bers on a floor, running in length from the gates to the cornersof the courts: there e being in ali thirty chambers in a Itory,where the people ate the facrifices, or thirty exhedras, each ofwhich contained three chambers, a lower, a middle, and an up-per. Every exhedra was 37^ cubits long, being fupported byfour pillars in each row, whofe bales were 4^ cubits fquare, andthe diltances between their bales 6j cubits, and the dillances be-tween the axes of the pillars eleven cubits : and where two ex-hedras joined, there the bales of their pillars joined; the axesof thole two pillars being only 4! cubits diifant from one an-other: and perhaps for ffcrengthening the building, the fpace3 between