² “Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them,^(A) and bring them to one of the chambers^(B) of the temple of the Lord to offer them a drink of wine.”

Outside the Temple

⁵ Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet^[a] thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was seven feet.^{[b](A) 6} The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of 30 rooms each.^[c] There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.^(B)