⁷ The alcoves^(A) for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits^[a] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.

³⁶ as did its alcoves,^(A) its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

⁵ Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

³³ Its alcoves,^(A) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

²⁹ Its alcoves,^(A) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.^(B)

⁴ I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God.^(A) It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum^(B) the doorkeeper.^(C)

²⁹ Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.”

¹¹ Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and this was done.

⁹ The gold nails^(A) weighed fifty shekels.^[a] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

²⁸ The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the temple of the Lord: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification^(A) of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God.