Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.
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Its arches were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts. The ascent to it had eight steps.
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And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
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And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof; and the going up to it had eight steps.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 40:31 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 40:26 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 40:22 Its windows, its arches, and its palm trees were the same as the measure of the gate which faces toward the east. They went up to it by seven steps. Its arches were before them.
- 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 40:37 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 40:31 And the arches thereof [were] toward the…
Eze 40:31 And the arches thereof [were] toward the utter court; and palm trees [were] upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it [had] eight steps.
Ver. 31. And palm trees.] See on Eze 40:16.
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Eight steps.] See on Eze 40:22.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In this verse two things are mentioned wherein this…
In this verse two things are mentioned wherein this gate differed from the other; first, in the arches or porch, which stood not inward, but outward towards the outer court, the reason whereof will appear in what follows. The next difference lieth in this, that the ascent was by eight steps (more than the other, say some, and so make them fifteen). Now, if the porch to this gate built outward stood upon such ascent, it would be necessary the pillars should be such as Eze 40:30 expresseth them, five cubits in the breadth of the basis, and twenty-five cubits high.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he brought me into the inner court toward…
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east,.... Into that part of it which lay to the east, having gone through that which lay to the south:
and he measured the gate according to these measures; that is, the eastern gate of the inner court; for the eastern gate that led to the outward court he measured first, Eze 40:6, and this was according to the measure of that, and of the rest.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Utter court - Translate outward court Eze 40:37; Eze…
Utter court - Translate outward court Eze 40:37; Eze 42:1, Eze 42:7, Eze 42:14; Eze 44:19; Eze 46:20-21.
Arches toward the outward court - See Eze 40:14 note.
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Eight steps - So for the east Eze 40:34 and north gates Eze 40:37. From the precincts to the outer court were “seven” steps, from the outer to the inner court “eight,” making together the number of the Psalms Ps. 120–134, supposed by some to have been called Psalms of Degrees, because they were sung by the choir of Levites upon the steps (“degrees”) of the temple-courts. In later times these Psalms were used as pilgrims’ songs by the Jews who went up from their abodes in foreign countries to Jerusalem on the solemn feasts.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain eight steps--The outer porch had only seven (Eze 40:26).
eight steps--The outer porch had only seven (Eze 40:26).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. Render: and the porch thereof was toward the…
31. Render: and the porch thereof was toward the outer court, cf. Eze_40:34; Eze_40:37.
palm trees … posts] Cf. Eze_40:16; Eze_40:26.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (31) Utter = Outer, and so in Eze_40:37; Eze_42:1;…
(31) Utter = Outer, and so in Eze_40:37; Eze_42:1; Eze_42:3; Eze_42:7; Eze_42:14; Eze_44:19; Eze_46:20-21. In old English utter and outer appear to have been often interchanged.
Eight steps.—All the gates of the inner court (see Eze_40:34; Eze_40:37) had one more step than those of the outer, the inner court being raised so much more above the outer than the outer was above the precincts. The two sets together made up fifteen steps, the same number as led up in the later Temple from the court of the women to the court of Israel, and on which, according to Jewish tradition, the Levites stood to chant the fifteen Psalms (Psalms 120-134) called “Songs of Degrees.”
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Eze_40:32-34 describe the east gate, and Eze_40:35-37 the north gate, both exactly like the one already described.
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