For they were in three rows, but had not pillars as the pillars of the court: therefore there was a difference from them beneath and from the middlemost, even from the ground.

And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forefront of the chambers, was fifty cubits long.

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court, was fifty cubits: and lo, before the Temple were an hundred cubits.

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The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors. There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits. While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.

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