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Bishop's Bible

Ezekiel 42:2

Before the length of a hundred cubites [was] the north doore: and the breadth [was] fiftie cubites.

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Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Along the length of the chambers, which was 175 feet, there was an entrance on the north; the width was 87½ feet.
Hebrew Names Version
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
King James Version
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
English Standard Version
The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
New American Standard Bible
Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
New Century Version
These rooms on the north side were one hundred seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one-half feet wide.
Amplified Bible
Along the length, one hundred cubits, was the north door; and the width was fifty cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Before ye length of an hundreth cubites, was the North doore, and it was fiftie cubites broad.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
Legacy Standard Bible
Along the length, which was one hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
Complete Jewish Bible
The length of the front was 175 feet on the north side, where the door was; the width was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet.
Darby Translation
before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
Easy-to-Read Version
This building was 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide. People entered it from the courtyard on the north side.
George Lamsa Translation
Towards the place where he measured a hundred cubits, which is at the north gate, and the breadth of it was fifty cubits.
Good News Translation
This building was 168 feet long and 84 feet wide.
Lexham English Bible
As to the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits.
Literal Translation
To the face of its length was a hundred cubits, toward the north door, and fifty cubits wide.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wydenesse conteyned L. cubites,
American Standard Version
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Bible in Basic English
On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,
King James Version (1611)
Before the length of an hundreth cubites was the North doore, and the breadth was fiftie cubits.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty,
English Revised Version
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
World English Bible
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the face an hundrid cubitis of lengthe of the dore of the north, and fifti cubitis of breede,
Update Bible Version
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
Before the length of a hundred cubits [was] the north door, and the breadth [was] fifty cubits.
New English Translation
Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.
New King James Version
Facing the length, which was one hundred cubits (the width was fifty cubits), was the north door.
New Living Translation
This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1⁄2 feet wide.
New Life Bible
The building whose door faced north was as long as 100 cubits and as wide as fifty cubits.
New Revised Standard
The length of the building that was on the north side was one hundred cubits, and the width fifty cubits.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Facing the length of the hundred cubits, was the entrance of the north, - and the breadth was fifty cubits:
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the face of the north door was the length of hundred cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.
Revised Standard Version
The length of the building which was on the north side was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.
Young's Literal Translation
At the front of the length [is] a hundred cubits [at] the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

Contextual Overview

1 Then led he me into the vtter court by the way toward the north, and he brought me into the chamber that [was] ouer against the separate place, whiche [was] before the buylding towarde the north. 2 Before the length of a hundred cubites [was] the north doore: and the breadth [was] fiftie cubites. 3 Ouer against the twentie cubites, which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement, which was for the vtter court, [was] chamber against chamber, three [orders.] 4 And before the chambers, ther was a walking place of ten cubites wyde inwarde, the way of one cubite: and their doores towarde the north. 5 Thus the vpper chambers were alway narower: for those chambers [seemed] to eate vp these, [to wit] the lower and the middlemer of the buylding. 6 For they were in three orders, but had no pillers as the pillers of the courtes: therfore were they smaller then the nethermost and the middlemost [to recken] from the grounde. 7 And the wall that was without ouer against the chambers, towarde the vtter court on the forefront of the chambers, the length therof was fiftie cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the vtter court was fyftie cubites: and lo, before the temple was a hundred cubites. 9 And vnder these chambers [was] the entrie from the east, as one goeth vnto them from the vtter court. 10 In the thicknesse of the wall of the court towarde the east before the separate place, and before the building of the chambers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Before: Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters. Ezekiel 42:2

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 42:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 43:2
And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne [and] bye vs a litle foode.
Genesis 43:4
If thou wylt sende our brother with vs, we wyll go downe, and bye thee foode.
Genesis 43:8
The said Iuda vnto Israel his father: send the lad with me, that we may arise and go, and that we may liue, & not dye, yea both we & thou, & also our meany.
Genesis 45:9
Haste you, and go vp to my father, and tell him: thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt, come downe therfore vnto me, tary not.
Psalms 118:17
I shall not [as yet] dye, but I shal liue: and I wyll declare the workes of the Lorde.
Isaiah 38:1
About this tyme was Hezekia sicke vnto death, and the prophete Esai the sonne of Amos came vnto hym, and sayde, Thus commaundeth the Lorde: Set thyne house in order, for thou must dye, and shalt not escape.
Matthew 4:4
But he aunswered, and sayde, it is written: Man shall not lyue by breade only, but by euery worde that proceadeth out of the mouth of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,.... That is, the north door of the house opened to a space that lay between that and the chambers, which was a hundred cubits long:

and the breadth was fifty cubits; or the sense is, that the prophet was brought, as Noldius renders the words t,

to a place whose length was an hundred cubits towards the north door; so that they describe the length and breadth of these chambers, the whole of them; and to this agrees the Arabic version: this account of them makes them larger than Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:2, which may signify the largeness of these churches; the number of men in them; and the abundance of spiritual blessings and privileges, of light and knowledge, peace and joy, possessed by them: but the measure being oblong, and not foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem,

Revelation 21:16, shows they are not yet come to stability and perfection.

t Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 82.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He brought me “before” a row of chambers 100 cubits long, east and west. “The door” of which lay on the north side of the chambers. The priests entered from the outer court (O); the breadth of this block of chambers was fifty cubits, north and south Ezekiel 42:8.


 
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