There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.
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There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.
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And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
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And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 40:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 40:23 There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.
- Ezekiel 40:32 He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
- Ezekiel 40:19 Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
- Ezekiel 40:47 He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As before the east gate answered to east, and…
As before the east gate answered to east, and north to north, so here one south gate answers to the other in the confronting or parallel walls, and in all points exactly uniform. To prevent repetition, I refer you to the particular measures, &c. of the east gate.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain In these verses we have a delineation of the…
In these verses we have a delineation of the inner court. The survey of the outer court ended with the south side of it. This of the inner court begins with the south side (Eze 40:27), proceeds to the east (Eze 40:32), and so to the north (Eze 40:35); for here is no gate either of the outer or inner court towards the west. It should seem that in Solomon's temple there were gates westward, for we find porters towards the west, Ch1 9:24; Ch1 26:8. But Josephus says that in the second temple there was no gate on the west side. Observe, 1. These gates into the inner court were exactly uniform with those into the outer court, the dimensions the same, the chambers adjoining the same, the galleries or rows round the court the same, and the very engravings on the posts the same. The work of grace, and its workings, are the same, for substance, in grown Christians that they are in young beginners, only that the former have got so much nearer their perfection. The faith of all the saints is alike precious, though it be not alike strong. There is a great resemblance between one child of God and another; for all they are brethren and bear the same image. 2. The ascent into the outer court at each gate was by seven steps, but the ascent into the inner court at each gate was by eight steps. This is expressly taken notice of (Eze 40:31, Eze 40:34, Eze 40:37), to signify that the nearer we approach to God the more we should rise above this world and the things of it. The people, who worshipped in the outer court, must rise seven steps above other people, but the priests, who attended in the inner court, must rise eight steps above them, must exceed them at least one step more than they exceed other people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he brought me to the inner court by…
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate,.... Having done with the outer court, east, north, and south, the prophet is brought into the inner court by the south gate, which was nearest to enter by. No mention is made of a western gate, there was one in Solomon's temple; for there were porters appointed westward by David, and fixed by Solomon, Ch1 9:24, but Josephus (l) says, in the second temple the western part had no gate, but a continued wall; for those that came out of the captivity, as Kimchi on Eze 40:5 observes, built it (as much as they could) according to the form of what they saw in Ezekiel's temple, which shall be in time to come.
And he measured the south gate according to these measures; the gate which led into the inner court; for the south gate, which led to the outward court, he had measured before, Eze 40:21.
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(l) De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 2. Vid. Lipman, Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 12.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 40:27-31. And there was a gate in the…
Eze 40:27-31. And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south — The south gate in the inner court was exactly parallel to the south gate in the outer court: see Eze 40:23. And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate — Those who maintain that the outer court enclosed the inner on the east, north, and south sides, explain these words in this sense, that the prophet was conducted from the south gate of the outer court, Eze 40:24, to the south gate of the inner court, which was over against it, and so into the inner court itself. And he measured the south gate, &c. — After he had measured the inner court, he took the dimensions of the south gate itself, and the chambers thereto belonging, and found them of the same dimensions with the former. The arches five and twenty cubits long, &c. — Length is here taken for height, as before, Eze 40:11. The words express the dimensions of those arches which were between the several little chambers, between each of which there was a space of five cubits, Eze 40:7. The arches were toward the outer court — Or, were like [those of] the outer court.
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