Galleries

Galleries appear in the architectural survey of the visionary temple shown to Ezekiel. The term names a tier of the side-chambers framing the temple courts.

In Ezekiel's Visionary Temple

The measuring guide leads Ezekiel through the chambers that flank the inner and outer courts, and the third storey is described by the stacked rows of openings that face one another across the structure: "Opposite the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story" (Ezek 42:3). The arrangement places gallery against gallery on the topmost level — the inner-court side and the outer-court pavement side mirroring one another — so the architecture of the side-chambers is exhibited as paired tiers in the third storey.