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the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and (from) the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered,)
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
And there were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon (each) post were palm-trees.
And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch without.
And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
Over against the twenty (cubits) which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.