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laying up fhe holy things, and the garments of the priefts; and Temple o?thefe galleries were towards the walk or alley, which ran 1)6-^^°^°^'tween the buildings.

VII. They went up from the Priefts Court to the porch of thetemple by ten fteps: and the a houfe of the temple was twenty Vcubits broad, and fixty long within ; or thirty broad, and fe-xii. 2,4,12,venty long, including the walls; or feventy cubits broad, and 13 ’ 14 'ninety long, including a building of treafure-chambers, which

was twenty cubits broad 011 three lides of the houfe ; and if theporch be alfo included, the temple was b an hundred cubits long/

The treafure-chambers were built of cedar, between the wallofn-the temple, and another wall without : they were built c in two‘ E “ k ' xll<rows three ftories high, and opened door againft door into a walkor gallery which ran along between them, and was live cubitsbroad in every ftory ; fo that the breadth of the chambers oneither fide of the gallery, including the breadth of the wall towhich they adjoined, was ten cubits ; and the whole breadth ofthe gallery and chambers, and both walls, was live and twentycubits : the chambers d were fi ve cubits broad in the lower ftory, * - King. vi.fix broad in the middle ftory, and feven broad in the upper ftory;for the wall of the temple was built with retradiions of a cubit,to reft the timber upon. Ezekiel reprefents the chambers a cu-bit narrower, and the walls a cubit thicker than they were inSolomon’s temple. There were e thirty chambers in a ftory ; in ' Ezek. xir.6.-ali ninety chambers; and they were five cubits high in everyftory. The ^ porch of the temple was 120 cubits high, and itsf.. 2Chron ’length from fouth to north equalled the breadth of the houfe.

The houfe was three ftories high, which made the height of theHoly Place three times thirty cubits, and that of the Moft Holythree times twenty. The upper rooms were treafure-chambers.

They g went up to the middle chamberby winding ftairs in the El K,n S' viJ *fouthern fhoulder of the houfe, and from the middle into theupper.

VIII. Some time after this temple was built, the Jews h added a^

New Court on the eaftern fide of the Priefts Court, before theKing’s Gate; and therein built 1 a covert for the fabbath. Thiscourt was not meafured by Ezekiel; but the dimenfions thereof 2 . K '"2*

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