Ezekiel 40:7

And 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.

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In The King James Version

And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

In Context

6Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

8And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:5And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

1 Chronicles 23:28Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 31:11Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.

Jeremiah 35:4And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;

Ezekiel 40:33And of the rooms in it and its uprights and its covered ways, by these measures: and there were windows in it and in the covered way round about: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

Ezekiel 42:5And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms.

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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