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16 The rooms for the guards all had small windows in their outside walls. The walls between the rooms also had small windows. The entrance room to the yard also had windows of the same kind. Men had cut pictures of palm trees on the inside walls of the passage.[a]

The outside yard

17 The man took me through the entrance gate into the outside yard of the temple. I saw 30 rooms there, all along the wall of the yard. A path of flat stones was in front of the rooms. 18 The path went all around the yard and it covered the space between the gates. It was called the lower path.

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Footnotes

  1. 40:16 The plan of these gates was like the gates in Solomon's temple. See 1 Kings 6:29-36.