⁵ He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

¹² The great court had three courses of dressed stone to one layer of cedar beams all around; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.^(A)

¹² The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz that the kings of Judah had made and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord he pulled down from there and broke in pieces and threw the rubble into the Wadi Kidron.^(A)

⁴ The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and the guardians of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.^(A)

³⁶ He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.^(A)

¹⁹ When they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall remove the vestments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, so that they may not communicate holiness to the people with their vestments.^(A)

⁵ the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.^(A)

³ 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)

⁴⁷ He measured the court, one hundred cubits deep and one hundred cubits wide, a square, and the altar was in front of the temple.^(A)

³⁷ Its vestibule^[a] faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its posts, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.^(A)