The Inner Temple
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. Eze 41:7
was an enlarging... The wall for the side chambers or rooms had the full thickness of 5 cubits (8 feet 9 inches) for the ground story; but this was diminished 1 cubit (21 inches) to form a ledge on which to rest the beams of the second story; and then further diminished a cubit for the floor of the third story. Thus there was an enlarging of the second story of the chambers by 1 cubit, and an enlarging of the third story by 2 cubits beyond the breadth of the ground floor. This made more room for the galleries on the upper floors (Eze. 41:15-16; 42:3-5).
We see there are several floors. In the chambers, the first floor was very small, as we saw in the previous verse. The second floor was bigger than the first, and the third floor was bigger than the second. There were probably, three floors in these chambers.
Surrounding the temple were three levels of side rooms… one above another, 30 on each level.
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