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The side rooms were on three different floors, one above the other. There were 30 rooms on each floor. The wall of the Temple was built with ledges. The side rooms rested on these ledges but were not connected to the Temple wall itself. Each floor of the side rooms around the Temple was wider than the floor below. The walls of the rooms around the Temple became narrower the higher they went so that the rooms on the top floors were wider. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the highest floor through the middle floor.

I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all the way around it. It was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was a full ruler[a] high.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 41:8 full ruler That is, 6 cubits (10' 2 7/16" or 3.11 m).

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