New English Translation
Ezekiel 40:15
15From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.
Ezekiel 40:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
- New International Version (NIV)The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.
- English Standard Version (ESV)From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.
- New King James Version (NKJV)From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.
Context of Ezekiel 40:15
13He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one. 14He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard. From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. 16There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. 17Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
Read all of Ezekiel 40Ezekiel 40:15 word by word
וְעַ֗ל פְּנֵי֙ הַשַּׁ֣עַר הָֽאִית֔וֹן עַל־לִפְנֵ֕י אֻלָ֥ם הַשַּׁ֖עַר הַפְּנִימִ֑י חֲמִשִּׁ֖ים אַמָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 40:15
- Ezekiel 41:21The doorposts of the outer sanctuary were square. In front of the sanctuary one doorpost looked just like the other.
- Ezekiel 41:17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.
- Ezekiel 41:6The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:7The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
- Ezekiel 40:6Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 40:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Fifty cubits - The length of the building. See MMMMM in the plan.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 The east gate-building. See Plan III. Ezekiel 40:6 Stairs - Seven in number Ezekiel 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken from East to west, i. e., in depth. Ezekiel 40:7 Every little chamber - The guard-chambers (a) for the use of the Levites who kept watch in the temple. The threshold of the gate by the porch - The second threshold in the easternmost gate-way (c). Porch - Hebrew…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-16The exact architectural details of the temple are difficult to translate. Some of the building terms are hard to understand in every language. However, the overall impression of these gates is clear. The gates looked like fortresses (strong buildings used for defense). They were built to keep out people who did not have permission to enter. These gates protected the holy space of the temple. The eastern gateway is described first because it was the most…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-49The arrangements as to the land and the temple are, in many particulars, different from those subsisting before the captivity. There are things in it so improbable physically as to preclude a purely literal interpretation. The general truth seems to hold good that, as Israel served the nations for his rejection of Messiah, so shall they serve him in the person of Messiah, when he shall acknowledge Messiah (Is 60:12; Zec 14:17-19; compare Psa 72:11). The…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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