Ezekiel 40:16

And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.

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In The King James Version

And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

In Context

15And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.

17Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

1 Kings 6:35These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:5And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

Ezekiel 40:7And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

Ezekiel 40:21And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 40:30And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 40:6-27

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7 And every little chamber… Read the whole commentary →

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