And the greater court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar: moreover also in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.
But the court, which is without the temple, cast out, and measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city they shall tread under foot two and forty months:
Solomon also sanctified the middle of the court before the temple of the Lord. For he offered there the holocausts and the fat of the peace-offerings: because the brazen altar which he had made could not hold the holocausts, and the sacrifices, and the fat.
And Baruch read out of the volume the words of Jeremias, in the house of the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias the son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord, in the hearing of all the people.