Level

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of His disciples was there, along with a great number of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”