9. The outer wall of the side rooms was 9 feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms connected to the temple
10. and the priests’ rooms. It was 35 feet wide and went all around the temple.
11. The doors in the side rooms were entrances into the open area. There was one door to the north and another to the south. The base of the open area was 9 feet wide all the way around.
12. At the far end of the open area, on the west side of the temple, was a building 122½ feet wide. The wall of the building was 9 feet thick all the way around, and it was 157½ feet long.
13. Then the man measured the temple. It was 175 feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was 175 feet long.
14. The eastern side of the temple, including the open area, was also 175 feet wide.
15. He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was 175 feet long.The holy place and the most holy place were paneled.
16. The doorposts, the small windows, and the corridors of all three stories were paneled. The walls, from the floor up to the windows, were paneled.
17. In the space above the door to the most holy place and on the walls all around it,
18. there were pictures of angels and palm trees. Palm trees were positioned between each of the angels, and each angel had two faces:
19. the face of a man, which was turned toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion, which was turned toward a palm tree on the other side. These pictures were carved all around the temple.
20. Pictures of angels and palm trees were carved on the walls from the floor to the space above the door.
21. The doorframes in the holy place were square. In front of the most holy place was something similar.
22. There was a wooden altar, 5 feet high and 3½ feet wide. Its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. Then the man told me, “This is the table that is in the presence of the Lord.”