Ezekiel 40:23

There was an entryway to the inner courtyard that faces the north entryway, like there was on the east side. The man measured the distance from the north entryway to the entryway on the other side; it was ◄175 feet/53 meters►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

In Context

22Its windows and the entry room and the palm tree decorations all measured the same as the ones on the east side. There were seven steps up to the outer threshold/opening for the entryway, and an entry room was at the other end of the entryway.

24Then he brought me through the south entryway into the outer courtyard, and he measured it. It measured the same as the other entryways. Its alcoves, its dividing walls between the alcoves, and its entry room measured the same as the ones on the other sides.

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Cross References

Exodus 38:9Around the Sacred Tent Bezalel and his helpers made a courtyard. To form the courtyard, they made curtains of fine white linen. On the south side, the curtain was ◄150 feet/46 meters► long.

Ezekiel 40:27The inner courtyard also had an entryway on the south side. He measured from that entryway to the entrance on the south side of the outer courtyard; it was also ◄175 feet/53 meters►.

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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