Ezekiel 40:16

And there were secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch there were palm-trees on this side and on that side.

Brenton Septuagint

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 the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

17And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.

1 Kings 6:35being carved with cherubs, and there were palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it was overlaid with gold gilt upon the engraving.

2 Chronicles 3:5And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm-trees and chains.

Ezekiel 40:7And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits.

Ezekiel 40:21and the chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm-trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

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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