⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the ^(A)two courts of the house of the Lord.

¹² The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the ^(A)inner court of the house of the Lord ^(B)and the vestibule of the temple.

¹² The altars that were ^(A)on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which ^(B)Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.

⁴ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the ^(A)priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring ^(B)out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for ^[a]Asherah, and for all ^[b]the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

³⁶ And he built the ^(A)inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.

¹⁹ When they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, ^(A)they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other garments; and in their holy garments they shall ^(B)not sanctify the people.

^5 (A)The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, ^(B)the glory of the Lord filled the ^[a]temple.

³ Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the ^(A)pavement of the outer court, was ^(B)gallery against gallery in three stories.

Dimensions of the Inner Court and Vestibule^(A)

⁴⁷ And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare. The altar was in front of the temple.

³⁷ Its gateposts faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side, and going up to it were eight steps.