There were two doors. Each door had two parts, so the two doors folded. They carved pictures of Cherub angels, [55] {palm} trees, and flowers on the doors. Then they covered them with gold.
1 Kings 6:36 - Easy To Read Version Then they built the inner yard. They built walls around this yard. Each wall was made from three rows of cut stones and one row of cedar timbers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams. American Standard Version (1901) And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams. Common English Bible He built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone followed by one row of trimmed cedar. Catholic Public Domain Version And he built the inner atrium with three rows of polished stones, and one row of cedar wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar. |
There were two doors. Each door had two parts, so the two doors folded. They carved pictures of Cherub angels, [55] {palm} trees, and flowers on the doors. Then they covered them with gold.
There were walls around the palace yard, the temple yard, and the porch of the temple. Those walls were built with three rows of stone and one row of cedar timbers.
Solomon also made the Priests’ yard, {\cf2\super [64]} the Great yard, and the doors for the yards. He used bronze to cover the doors that opened to the yard.
Solomon made the middle part of the yard holy. That yard is in front of the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [124]} That is the place where Solomon offered burnt offerings {\cf2\super [125]} and the fat of the fellowship offerings. Solomon used the middle of the yard because the bronze altar {\cf2\super [126]} he made could not hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat. There were many of those offerings.
\{The wall around it\} must have three rows of large stones and one row of big wood timbers. The cost of building the temple must be paid for from the king’s treasury.
At that time, Baruch read the scroll {\cf2\super [304]} that contained Jeremiah’s words. He read the scroll in the temple of the Lord. Baruch read the scroll to all the people that were in the Lord’s temple. Baruch was in the room of Gemariah in the upper courtyard when he read from the scroll. That room was located at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple. Gemariah was the son of Shaphan. Gemariah was a scribe {\cf2\super [305]} in the temple.
Then the man led me through the south gate into the inner courtyard. He measured this gate. This gateway measured the same as the other gates to the inner courtyard.
But don’t measure the yard outside the temple. Leave that alone. That has been given to the people who are not Jews. Those people will walk on the holy city for 42 months.