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.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.

  • KJV King James Version

    And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And every cell was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the cells was five cubits; and the jambs of the gate by the porch of the gate within were one reed.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Ezekiel 40:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 40:36 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.
  • 1 Kings 6:5-10 Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around. The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction. The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third. So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar. He built the floors all along the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
  • 1 Chronicles 9:26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.
  • 1 Chronicles 23:28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house;
  • 2 Chronicles 3:9 The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
  • 2 Chronicles 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.
  • Ezra 8:29 Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
  • Jeremiah 35:4 and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
  • Ezekiel 40:29 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 42:5 Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 40:7 And [every] little chamber [was] one reed…

Eze 40:7 And [every] little chamber [was] one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers [were] five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within [was] one reed.

Ver. 7. And every little chamber.] Or, Porter’s lodge.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Along the wall of the porch were chambers, three…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And every little chamber was one reed long, and…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Chamber - Along the wall of the porch were…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. And every little chamber was one reed]…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Chamber, for the porters, (Calmet) three on each side…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain chamber--These chambers were for the use of the Levites…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. The guardrooms. Fig. 1 bb.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And every little chamber. Proceeding inward beneath a covered…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 40:7 Six guard alcoves lined the inside of the…

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