the pillars of the courts LXX. reads: pillars of the outer ones, i.e. the chambers in the outer court. Probably there is a transcriptional error here, cf. Ezekiel 41:15.

was straitened lit. there was(room) taken away from the lowest … from the ground. The last words seem in apposition with "lowest," and refer to the ground area. The verse indicates that the chambers in the outer court had pillars, and that the three stories were all of the same dimensions.

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