The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
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The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side. Its posts and its arches were the same as the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
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And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
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And the cells thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 40:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 40:29-30 with its lodges, its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements. There were windows in it and in its arches all around. It was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide. There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:7-8 Every lodge was one reed long and one reed wide. Between the lodges was five cubits. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:10-16 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side. He measured the width of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door. He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate. From the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches. Windows were around inward. Palm trees were on each post.
- Ezekiel 40:25-26 There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits. There were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them. It had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on its posts.
- Ezekiel 40:34 Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
- Ezekiel 40:36-37 its lodges, its posts, and its arches. There were windows in it all around. The length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 40:21 And the little chambers thereof [were] three…
Eze 40:21 And the little chambers thereof [were] three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ver. 21. Of the first gate,] i.e., Of the east gate, first measured.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The first gate; called, Eze 40:22, east gate.
The first gate; called, Eze 40:22, east gate.
The length thereof was fifty cubits: see Eze 40:15.
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The breadth five and twenty cubits: see Eze 40:13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And their windows, and their arches, and their palm…
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east,.... Eze 40:14, signifying that the light of the churches, their privileges, and flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in one part of the world, so in another; see Isa 52:8,
and they went up unto it by seven steps; or stairs, Eze 40:6, the number of them is not there mentioned as here, but the same in both; See Gill on Eze 40:6,
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and the arches thereof were before them; the steps; or "within" them, as the Septuagint; the steps led to the arches of the gate, or to the porch of it, which were more inward.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. And the little chambers thereof were three,…
Verse 21. And the little chambers thereof were three, &c.] See the plan. See Clarke on Eze 48:35.
Arches] Porch. The arch was not known at this period.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. the little chambers] guardrooms.
21. the little chambers] guardrooms.
and the arches thereof] the porch thereof. Probably all the words, guardroom, post, porch, should be read in the sing, as collectives (Heb. text). The difference is unimportant except in regard to “porch.”
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