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Ezekiel 42:2

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- 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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before the length of a hundred cubites [was] the north doore: and the breadth [was] fiftie cubites.
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

1After the man and I left the temple and walked back to the outer courtyard, he showed me a set of rooms on the north side of the west building. This set of rooms was one hundred seventy feet long and eighty-five feet wide. 3 On one side of them was the thirty-four feet of open space that ran alongside the temple, and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard. The rooms were arranged in three levels 4 with doors that opened toward the north, and in front of them was a walkway seventeen feet wide and one hundred seventy feet long. 5 The rooms on the top level were narrower than those on the middle level, and the rooms on the middle level were narrower than those on the bottom level. 6 The rooms on the bottom level supported those on the two upper levels, and so these rooms did not have columns like other buildings in the courtyard. 7To the north was a privacy wall eighty-five feet long, 9and at the east end of this wall was the door leading from the courtyard to these rooms. There was also a set of rooms on the south side of the west building. 11 These rooms were exactly like those on the north side, and they also had a walkway in front of them. 12 The door to these rooms was at the east end of the wall that stood in front of them. 13 The man then said to me: These rooms on the north and south sides of the temple are the sacred rooms where the Lord 's priests will eat the most holy offerings. These offerings include the grain sacrifices, the sacrifices for sin, and the sacrifices to make things right.

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
until finally, Jacob's family had eaten all the grain they had bought in Egypt. So Jacob said to his sons, "Go back and buy some more grain."
Genesis 43:8
Then Judah said to his father, "Let Benjamin go with me, and we will leave right away, so that none of us will starve to death.
Genesis 45:9
Now hurry back and tell my father that his son Joseph says, "God has made me ruler of Egypt. Come here as quickly as you can.
Psalms 118:17
And so my life is safe, and I will live to tell what the Lord has done.
Isaiah 38:1
About this time, Hezekiah got sick and was almost dead. So I went in and told him, "The Lord says you won't ever get well. You are going to die, and so you had better start doing what needs to be done."
Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, "The Scriptures say: ‘No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.'"

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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