40In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year on the tenth of the month—it was the fourteenth year after the city fell—GOD touched me and brought me here.H2568H6242H8141H1546H7218H8141H6218H2320H702H6240H8141H310H5892H5221H6106H3117H3027H3068H9352He brought me in divine vision to the land of Israel and set me down on a high mountain. To the south there were buildings that looked like a city.H4759H430H935H776H3478H5117H3966H1364H2022H4011H5892H50453He took me there and I met a man deeply tanned, like bronze. He stood at the entrance holding a linen cord and a measuring stick.H935H376H4758H4758H5178H6616H6593H3027H4060H7070H5975H81794The man said to me, "Son of man, look and listen carefully. Pay close attention to everything I'm going to show you. That's why you've been brought here. And then tell Israel everything you see."H376H1696H1121H120H7200H5869H8085H241H7760H3820H7200H4616H7200H935H5046H7200H1004H34785First I saw a wall around the outside of the Temple complex. The measuring stick in the man's hand was about ten feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall: about ten feet. The height was also about ten feet.H2346H2351H1004H5439H376H3027H4060H7070H8337H520H520H2948H4058H7341H1146H259H7070H6967H259H70706He went into the gate complex that faced the east and went up the seven steps.H935H8179H6440H1870H6921H5927H4609H4058H5592H8179H259H7070H7341H259H5592H259H7070H73417He measured the depth of the outside threshold of the gate complex: ten feet. There were alcoves flanking the gate corridor, each ten feet square, each separated by a wall seven and a half feet thick. The inside threshold of the gate complex that led to the porch facing into the Temple courtyard was ten feet deep.H8372H259H7070H753H259H7070H7341H8372H2568H520H5592H8179H681H197H8179H1004H259H70708He measured the inside porch of the gate complex:H4058H197H8179H1004H259H70709twelve feet deep, flanked by pillars three feet thick. The porch opened onto the Temple courtyard.H4058H197H8179H8083H520H352H8147H520H197H8179H100410Inside this east gate complex were three alcoves on each side. Each room was the same size and the separating walls were identical.H8372H8179H1870H6921H7969H6311H7969H6311H7969H259H4060H352H259H406011He measured the outside entrance to the gate complex: fifteen feet wide and nineteen and a half feet deep.H4058H7341H6607H8179H6235H520H753H8179H7969H6240H52012In front of each alcove was a low wall eighteen inches high. The alcoves were ten feet square.H1366H6440H8372H259H520H1366H520H8372H8337H520H8337H52013He measured the width of the gate complex from the outside edge of the alcove roof on one side to the outside edge of the alcove roof on the other: thirty-seven and a half feet from one top edge to the other.H4058H8179H1406H8372H1406H7341H2568H6242H520H6607H660714He measured the inside walls of the gate complex: ninety feet to the porch leading into the courtyard.H6213H352H8346H520H352H2691H5439H817915The distance from the entrance of the gate complex to the far end of the porch was seventy-five feet.H6440H8179H2978H6440H197H6442H8179H2572H52016The alcoves and their connecting walls inside the gate complex were topped by narrow windows all the way around. The porch also. All the windows faced inward. The doorjambs between the alcoves were decorated with palm trees.H331H2474H8372H352H6441H8179H5439H361H2474H5439H6441H352H856117The man then led me to the outside courtyard and all its rooms. A paved walkway had been built connecting the courtyard gates. Thirty rooms lined the courtyard.H935H2435H2691H3957H7531H6213H2691H5439H7970H3957H753118The walkway was the same length as the gateways. It flanked them and ran their entire length. This was the walkway for the outside courtyard.H7531H3802H8179H5980H753H8179H8481H753119He measured the distance from the front of the entrance gateway across to the entrance of the inner court: one hundred fifty feet. Then he took me to the north side.H4058H7341H6440H8481H8179H6440H6442H2691H2351H3967H520H6921H682820Here was another gate complex facing north, exiting the outside courtyard. He measured its length and width.H8179H2435H2691H6440H1870H6828H4058H753H734121It had three alcoves on each side. Its gateposts and porch were the same as in the first gate: eighty-seven and a half feet by forty-three and three-quarters feet.H8372H7969H7969H352H361H4060H7223H8179H753H2572H520H7341H2568H6242H52022The windows and palm trees were identical to the east gateway. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch faced inward.H2474H361H8561H4060H8179H6440H1870H6921H5927H7651H4609H361H644023Opposite this gate complex was a gate complex to the inside courtyard, on the north as on the east. The distance between the two was one hundred seventy-five feet.H8179H6442H2691H8179H6828H6921H4058H8179H8179H3967H52024Then he took me to the south side, to the south gate complex. He measured its gateposts and its porch. It was the same size as the others.H3212H1870H1864H8179H1870H1864H4058H352H361H406025The porch with its windows was the same size as those previously mentioned.H2474H361H5439H2474H753H2572H520H7341H2568H6242H52026It also had seven steps up to it. Its porch opened onto the outside courtyard, with palm trees decorating its gateposts on both sides.H7651H4609H5930H361H6440H8561H259H259H35227Opposite to it, the gate complex for the inner court faced south. He measured the distance across the courtyard from gate to gate: one hundred seventy-five feet.H8179H6442H2691H1870H1864H4058H8179H8179H1870H1864H3967H52028He led me into the inside courtyard through the south gate complex. He measured it and found it the same as the outside ones.H935H6442H2691H1864H8179H4058H1864H8179H406029Its alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule were the same. The gate complex and porch, windowed all around, measured eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet.H8372H352H361H4060H2474H361H5439H2572H520H753H2568H6242H520H734130The vestibule of each of the gate complexes leading to the inside courtyard was forty-three and three-quarters by eight and three-quarters feet.H361H5439H2568H6242H520H753H2568H520H734131Each vestibule faced the outside courtyard. Palm trees were carved on its doorposts. Eight steps led up to it.H361H2435H2691H8561H352H4608H8083H460932He then took me to the inside courtyard on the east and measured the gate complex. It was identical to the others—H935H6442H2691H1870H6921H4058H8179H406033alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule all the same. The gate complex and vestibule had windows all around. It measured eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet.H8372H352H361H4060H2474H361H5439H2572H520H753H2568H6242H520H734134Its porch faced the outside courtyard. There were palm trees on the doorposts on both sides. And it had eight steps.H361H2435H2691H8561H352H4608H8083H460935He brought me to the gate complex to the north and measured it: same measurements.H935H6828H8179H4058H406036The alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule with its windows: eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet.H8372H352H361H2474H5439H753H2572H520H7341H2568H6242H52037Its porch faced the outside courtyard. There were palm trees on its doorposts on both sides. And it had eight steps.H352H2435H2691H8561H352H4608H8083H460938There was a room with a door at the vestibule of the gate complex where the burnt offerings were cleaned.H3957H6607H352H8179H1740H593039Two tables were placed within the vestibule, one on either side, on which the animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were slaughtered.H197H8179H8147H7979H7979H7819H5930H2403H81740Two tables were also placed against both outside walls of the vestibule—H3802H2351H5927H6607H6828H8179H8147H7979H312H3802H197H8179H8147H797941four tables inside and four tables outside, eight tables in all for slaughtering the sacrificial animals.H702H7979H702H7979H3802H8179H8083H7979H781942The four tables used for the burnt offerings were thirty-one and a half inches square and twenty-one inches high. The tools for slaughtering the sacrificial animals and other sacrifices were kept there.H702H7979H1496H68H5930H520H2677H753H520H2677H7341H259H520H1363H3240H3627H7819H5930H207743Meat hooks, three inches long, were fastened to the walls. The tables were for the sacrificial animals.H1004H8240H259H2948H3559H5439H7979H1320H713344Right where the inside gate complex opened onto the inside courtyard there were two rooms, one at the north gate facing south and the one at the south gate facing north.H2351H6442H8179H3957H7891H6442H2691H3802H6828H8179H6440H1870H1864H259H3802H6921H8179H6440H1870H682845The man told me, "The room facing south is for the priests who are in charge of the Temple.H1696H2090H3957H6440H1870H1864H3548H8104H4931H100446And the room facing north is for the priests who are in charge of the altar. These priests are the sons of Zadok, the only sons of Levi permitted to come near to GOD to serve him."H3957H6440H1870H6828H3548H8104H4931H4196H1121H6659H1121H3878H7131H3068H833447He measured the inside courtyard: a hundred seventy-five feet square. The altar was in front of the Temple.H4058H2691H3967H520H753H3967H520H7341H7251H4196H6440H100448He led me to the porch of the Temple and measured the gateposts of the porch: eight and three-quarters feet high on both sides.H935H197H1004H4058H352H197H2568H520H2568H520H7341H8179H7969H520H7969H52049The entrance to the gate complex was twenty-one feet wide and its connecting walls were four and a half feet thick. The vestibule itself was thirty-five feet wide and twenty-one feet deep. Ten steps led up to the porch. Columns flanked the gateposts.H753H197H6242H520H7341H6249H6240H520H4609H5927H5982H352H259H259