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 3.2 metres thick. The width of the side rooms all round the temple was 2.1 metres.^{[a](A) 6} The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each.^[b] There were ledges on the wall of the temple all round to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.^(B)