See Ezekiel 40:16. By seven steps: it is not said what number of stairs they went up to the east gate, but by this if appears they were seven steps in number, and it is said by some the form was semi-circular. The arches thereof, of this portico, the curious vaulted roof. Before them; within, or more inward than the steps or gate.
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Ezekiel 40:22
22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.