23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. 2
28:11 David gave to his son Solomon the blueprints for the temple porch, 3 its buildings, its treasuries, 4 its upper areas, its inner rooms, and the room 5 for atonement.
28:2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. 6 I have made the preparations for building it.
1:11 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
12:44 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, first fruits, and tithes, to gather into them from 9 the fields of the cities the portions prescribed by the law for the priests and the Levites, for the people of Judah 10 took delight in the priests and Levites who were ministering. 11
13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, 13 for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time 14 I had requested leave of the king, 13:7 and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God. 13:8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom. 13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment 15 of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.
1:4 Draw me 16 after you; let us hurry! 17
May the king 18 bring 19 me into his 20 bedroom chambers! 21
The Maidens 22 to the Lover:
We will 23 rejoice and delight in you; 24
we will praise 25 your love more than wine.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
How rightly 26 the young women 27 adore you!
40:44 On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one 30 at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south 31 gate facing north.
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple 32 as 10½ feet, 33 and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, 34 all around the temple. 41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; 35 for the structure 36 surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick 37 of 10½ feet 38 high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, 39 and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 41:10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet 40 in width all around the temple on every side. 41:11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet 41 all around.
42:10 At the beginning 49 of the wall of the court toward the south, 50 facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers 42:11 with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. Of the same length and width, and all their exits according to their arrangements and entrances 42:12 were the chambers 51 which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters.