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He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.(A)

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16 He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.(A)

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Hear the voice of my supplication,
    as I cry to you for help,
as I lift up my hands
    toward your most holy sanctuary.[a](A)

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  1. 28.2 Heb your innermost sanctuary

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place[a] in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside; they are there to this day.(A)

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  1. 5.9 Gk Heb mss: MT from the ark

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

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20 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;(A)

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31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.[a]

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  1. 6.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain

19 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20 The interior of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.[a] 21 Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, then he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

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  1. 6.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, the chambers rose[a] gallery[b] by gallery[c] in three stories.(A) Amid the chambers was an interior passage, ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits deep,[d] and its[e] entrances were on the north.(B) Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries[f] took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers in the building. For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer[g] court; for this reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.(C) There was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the temple were one hundred cubits long.(D) At the foot of these chambers ran a passage that one entered from the east in order to enter them from the terrace space outside.(E) 10 The entrance was aligned with the start of the wall[h] toward the court.

On the south[i] also, opposite the vacant area and opposite the building, there were chambers 11 with a passage in front of them; they were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and width, with the same exits[j] and arrangements and doors. 12 So the entrances of the chambers to the south were entered through the entrance at the head of the corresponding passage, from the east, along the matching wall.[k]

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  1. 42.3 Heb lacks the chambers rose
  2. 42.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 42.3 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 42.4 Gk Syr: Heb a way of one cubit
  5. 42.4 Heb their
  6. 42.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  7. 42.6 Gk: Heb lacks outer
  8. 42.10 Compare Gk: Heb in the thickness of the wall
  9. 42.10 Gk: Heb east
  10. 42.11 Heb and all their exits
  11. 42.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets[a] all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.(A) The passageway[b] of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one.(B) I saw also that the temple was on a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits high.(C) The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and the free space between the side chambers of the temple(D) 10 and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.(E) 11 The side chambers opened onto the area left free, one door toward the north and another door toward the south, and the width of the part that was left free was five cubits all around.(F)

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  1. 41.6 Gk: Heb they entered
  2. 41.7 Cn: Heb it was surrounded

44 On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers[a] in the inner court, one[b] at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south[c] gate facing north.(A)

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  1. 40.44 Gk: Heb chambers for the singers
  2. 40.44 Heb lacks one
  3. 40.44 Gk: Heb east

I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.(A)

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prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.(A) While this was taking place I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon I went to the king. After some time I asked leave of the king(B) and returned to Jerusalem. I then discovered the wrong that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah, preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God.(C) And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the room. Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.(D)

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Temple Responsibilities

44 On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites from the fields belonging to the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.(A)

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37 and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our soil, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.(A)

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Reorganization of Priests and Levites

11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare store chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

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11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the cover,(A)

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28 “but their duty shall be to assist the descendants of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God;

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26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in charge of the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

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89 When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord,[a] he would hear the voice speaking to him from above the cover that was on the ark of the covenant from between the two cherubim; thus it spoke to him.[b](A)

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  1. 7.89 Heb him
  2. 7.89 Or and he would speak to him