_Then he brought me into the Outward Court, and lo there were chambers, and a pavement with pillars upon it in the court round about, _[478]_ thirty chambers _in length_ upon the pavement, supported by the pillars, _ten chambers on every side, except the western_: and the pavement butted upon the shoulders or sides of the gates below, _every gate having five chambers or exhedræ on either side_. And he measured the breadth _of the Outward Court_, from the fore-front of the lower-gate, to the fore-front of the inward court, an hundred cubits eastward._ _Then he brought me northward, and there was a gate that looked towards the north; he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof, and the little chambers thereof, three on this side, and three on that side, and the posts thereof, and the porch thereof, and it was according to the measures of the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth was five and twenty: and the windows thereof, and the porch and the palm-trees thereof _were_ according to the measures of the gate which looked to the east, and they went up to it by seven steps: and its porch was before them, _that is inward_. And there was a gate of the inward court over against _this_ gate of the north, as _in the gates_ to the eastward: and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits._ * * * * * _A Description of THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON_ [Illustration: _Plate_ I. _p. 346._] ABCD. _The Separate Place in which stood the Temple._ ABEF. _The Court of y^{e} Priests._ G. _The Altar._ DHLKICEFD. _A Pavement compassing three sides of the foremention'd Courts, and upon which stood the Buildings for the Priests, with Cloysters under them._ MNOP. _The Court of the People._ MQTSRN. _A Pavement compassing three sides of the Peoples Court, upon which stood the Buildings for the People, with Cloysters under them._ UXYZ. _The Mountain of the House._ aabb._ A Wall enclosing the whole._ c. _The Gate Shallecheth._ d. _The Gate Parbar._ ef. _The two Gates Assupim._ g. _The East Gate of the Peoples Court, call'd the Kings Gate._ hh. _The North and South Gates of the same Court._ iiii. _The chambers over the Cloysters of the Peoples Court where the People ate the Sacrifices, 30 Chambers in each Story._ kkkk. _Four little Courts serving for Stair Cases and Kitchins for the People._ l. _The Eastern Gate of the Priests Court, over which sate the Sanhedrin._ m. _The Southern Gate of the Priests Court._ n. _The Northern Gate of the same Court, where the Sacrifices were flea'd &c._ opqrst. _The Buildings over the Cloysters for the Priests, viz six large Chambers (subdivided) in each Story, whereof _o_ and _p_ were for the High Priest and Sagan, _q_ for the Overseers of the Sanctuary and Treasury, _r_ for the Overseers of the Altar and Sacrifice and _s_ and _t_ for the Princes of the twenty four Courses of Priests._ uu. _Two Courts in which were Stair Cases and Kitchins for the Priests._