You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.

The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, and the width 1¾ feet; and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, and the width 1¾ feet;