He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
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He led me toward the south; and behold, there was a gate toward the south. He measured its posts and its arches according to these measurements.
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After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
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And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south; and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof according to these measures.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 40:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 40:6 Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.
- Ezekiel 40:20-21 He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces toward the north. 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.
- Ezekiel 46:9 “ ‘ “But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.
- Ezekiel 40:28-29 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements; 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.
- Ezekiel 40:33 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.
- Ezekiel 40:35-36 He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements; 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.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Having finished the measuring of the east gate, and…
Having finished the measuring of the east gate, and showed the prophet the sameness of the north gate’s buildings, measures, and ornaments, now he is informed of the south gate, and its exact symmetry with the other two, which consult in Eze 40:5-11.
The south; the south point of heaven.
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A gate toward the south; south part of the house.
The posts and the arches: see Eze 40:16,21,22.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And there were windows in it, and in the…
And there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about,.... That is, in the little chambers, though not expressed; and in the porches of them on each side, as you passed from the outer to the inner gate:
like those windows; that were in the chambers that were in the east and north gates, Eze 40:7,
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the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits; see Eze 40:13.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. According to these measures.] The same measures…
Verse 24. According to these measures.] The same measures that had been used at the eastern court.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 40:24-26. After that he brought me to the…
Eze 40:24-26. After that he brought me to the south, &c. — The prophet having shown, by way of parenthesis, in the 23d verse, the exact correspondence between the gates of both courts, proceeds in these three verses to describe the south gate of the outer court, by the same dimensions he had before given of the east and north gate.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. and the arches] the porch. LXX. more fully:…
24. and the arches] the porch. LXX. more fully: he measured the guardrooms thereof and the posts &c., as Eze_40:29; Eze_40:33; Eze_40:36.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 24-27The south gate. Here again the same details…
Vers. 24-27The south gate. Here again the same details recur as to the structure of the gate, its dimensions, and distance from the gate which led into the inner court.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 measured the same as the other outer gates
measured the same as the other outer gates
"had the same measurements as the northern and eastern gates"
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cubits
See how you translated these "long" cubits in Ezekiel 40:05.
fifty cubits
about 27 meters (See: Biblical Distance)
twenty-five cubits
about 13.5 meters
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