The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

³⁸ A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings^(A) were washed.

The Rooms for the Priests

⁴⁴ Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one^[a] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south^[b] gate and facing north. ⁴⁵ He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,^(A)

⁴⁶ and the room facing north^(A) is for the priests who guard the altar.^(B) These are the sons of Zadok,^(C) who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.^(D)”

¹⁰ and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

¹¹ He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah^(A) had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court^[a] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.^(B)