16. the thresholds, the shuttered windows, and the galleries all around in three stories opposite the thresholds—were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (even the windows were covered),
17. over the space above the door, as far as the inner House, and on all the wall outside all around inside and outside, by measurement.
18. It was made with cheruvim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cheruv and cheruv. Every cheruv had two faces:
19. the face of a man toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. Thus was it made on all the House all around.
20. The cheruvim and palm trees were made from the ground up to above the door and on the wall of the Temple.
21. The Temple’s doorposts were square. Now the front of the Sanctuary had something resembling
22. an altar—three cubits high and two cubits long, made of wood. Its corners, its base and its sides were also of wood. He said to me, “This is the table of the Presence of Adonai.”
23. The Temple and the inner Sanctuary each had double doors.
24. The doors each had two turning leaves—two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.
25. Cheruvim and palm trees were made on them, on the doors of the Temple, just like those made on the walls. There were thick beams of wood on the face of the porch outside.
26. There were shuttered windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the House and the thick beams.