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Ezekiel 41:8

I also saw that the temple (house) had a raised platform all around it; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full rod of six long cubits in height.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Reed;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Reed;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Cubit;   Weights and Measures;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Measures;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Weights and Measures;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Height;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10½ feet high.
Hebrew Names Version
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
King James Version
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
English Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
New American Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
New Century Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all around. Its edge was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was ten and one-half feet thick.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I sawe also the house hie rounde about: the foundations of the chambers were a full reede of fixe great cubites.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
Legacy Standard Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of six long cubits in height.
Berean Standard Bible
I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
Contemporary English Version
The temple rested on a stone base ten feet high, which also served as the foundation for the storage rooms.
Complete Jewish Bible
I saw that the house had a raised pavement all around it which extended outward a full rod of ten-and-a-half feet from where the foundations of the side-rooms joined it.
Darby Translation
And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint.
Easy-to-Read Version
I also saw that the Temple had a raised base all the way around it. It was the foundation for the side rooms, and it was a full ruler high.
George Lamsa Translation
I saw also the height of the house round about; and the side rooms were separated one from another a full measuring reed of six cubits.
Good News Translation
The outside wall of these rooms was 8 feet thick; there was one door into the rooms on the north side of the Temple, and one into those on the south side. I saw that there was a terrace 8 feet wide around the Temple; it was 10 feet above the ground and it was level with the foundation of the rooms by the Temple walls. Between the terrace and the buildings used by the priests there was an open space 34 feet across, along the sides of the Temple.
Lexham English Bible
And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long.
Literal Translation
I also saw the height of the house all around, the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed, six cubits by joining.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I sawe also that the house was very hye rounde aboute. The foundacion of the syde chambres was a meterodde (that is sixe cubites) brode.
American Standard Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Bible in Basic English
And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six cubits to the joining.
King James Version (1611)
I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reede of sixe great cubites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I saw the house hye round about: the foundatios of the chambers [were] a ful cane of sixe cubites vp to the armeholes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;
English Revised Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
World English Bible
I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y siy in the hous an hiynesse bi cumpas, the sidis foundid at the mesure of a rehed in the space of sixe cubitis;
Update Bible Version
I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the side-chambers [were] a full reed of six great cubits.
New English Translation
I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.
New King James Version
I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, that is, six cubits high.
New Living Translation
I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 1⁄2 feet high.
New Life Bible
I saw that the house had a raised base all around it, which made the base for the side rooms six cubits high.
New Revised Standard
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then saw I that the house had a height round about on every side, - the foundations of the side- chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joining.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw in the house the height round about, the foundations of the side chambers which were the measure of a reed the space of six cubits:
Revised Standard Version
I saw also that the temple had a raised platform round about; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers [are] the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining.
THE MESSAGE
I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple. There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.

Contextual Overview

1Then he (the angel) brought me to the nave (outer sanctuary) and measured the side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar. 2The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits. 3Then he went inside [the inner sanctuary] and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits [high], and the width of the doorway, seven cubits. 4He measured the length [of the interior of the inner sanctuary], twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, opposite the nave (outer sanctuary); and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." 5Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits [thick, to accommodate side chambers]; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the temple on every side. 6The side chambers were three stories [high], one above another, and thirty chambers in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, so that they would be attached, but not attached to the wall of the temple itself. 7The side chambers became wider at each successive level as they encompassed the temple. Because the structure surrounding the temple went higher by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest one by way of the second story. 8I also saw that the temple (house) had a raised platform all around it; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full rod of six long cubits in height.9The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple 10and the outer chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a full: Ezekiel 40:5, Revelation 21:16

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 43:13 - The cubits

Cross-References

Genesis 40:6
When Joseph came to them in the morning and looked at them, [he saw that] they were sad and depressed.
Genesis 40:8
And they said to him, "We have [each] dreamed [distinct] dreams and there is no one to interpret them." So Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell me [your dreams]."
Genesis 41:1
Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile.
Genesis 41:6
Then behold, seven ears [of grain], thin and dried up by the east wind, sprouted after them.
Genesis 41:8
So when morning came his spirit was troubled and disturbed and he sent and called for all the magicians and all the wise men of Egypt. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them to him.
Genesis 41:9
Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I would mention my faults today.
Genesis 41:11
"We dreamed a dream on the same night, he and I; each of us dreamed according to [the significance of] the interpretation of his own dream.
Genesis 41:12
"Now there was with us [in the prison] a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us, to each man according to the significance of his own dream.
Genesis 41:13
"And just as he interpreted [the dreams] for us, so it happened; I was restored to my office [as chief cupbearer], and the baker was hanged."
Genesis 41:14
Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when Joseph shaved himself and changed his clothes [making himself presentable], he came to Pharaoh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I saw also the height of the house round about,.... Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it:

the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits; not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:5, nor of the middlemost, which was five; but of the uppermost, which was six; and these were cubits of the largest size, a hand's breadth larger than the common cubit, and made one full reed, or three yards and a half; see Ezekiel 40:5, these foundations signify the same as the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; and which are no other than the one foundation Christ, ministerially laid by his twelve apostles; and who is the only foundation of his church and people, and is a sure one, Revelation 21:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The foundations of the side chambers - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of junction between two stories, which would be that of the ceiling of the lower and the floor of the upper story.


 
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