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The Darby Translation

Ezekiel 40:14

And he made posts, sixty cubits, and by the post was the court of the gate round about.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Arch;   Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Tabernacle;   Temple;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gareb;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gate;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Next, he measured the porch—105 feet.
Hebrew Names Version
He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the gate.
King James Version
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
English Standard Version
He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
New American Standard Bible
He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the courtyard.
New Century Version
The man also measured the porch, which was about thirty-five feet wide. The courtyard was around the porch.
Amplified Bible
He made [the measurement of] the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended all around to the side pillar of the courtyard.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He made also postes of threescore cubites, and the postes of the court, and of the gate had one measure round about.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.
Legacy Standard Bible
He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the courtyard.
Berean Standard Bible
Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
Contemporary English Version
He measured the entrance room at the far end of the passageway, and it was thirty-four feet wide.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made the posts 105 feet, likewise the posts of the other gates around the courtyard.
Easy-to-Read Version
He measured the faces of all the side walls, including the side walls on either side of the porch at the courtyard. The total was 60 cubits.
George Lamsa Translation
He measured also the portico, sixty cubits; likewise to the portico of the court round about the gate, sixty cubits.
Good News Translation
The room at the far end led out to a courtyard. He measured that room and found it was 34 feet wide.
Lexham English Bible
And he made the pilasters sixty cubits, and to the pilaster of the courtyard all the way around the gate.
Literal Translation
He also made the pillars, sixty cubits, even to the court pillar, from the gate all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He made pilers also lx cubites hie, rounde aboute the courte dore.
American Standard Version
He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court reached unto the posts, round about the gate.
Bible in Basic English
And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He made also posts of threescore cubits; even unto the posts of the court in the gates round about.
King James Version (1611)
He made also postes of threescore cubites, euen vnto the poste of the court round about the gate.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He made frontes also of threescore cubites, [euen] vnto the front of the court rounde about the gate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate.
English Revised Version
He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court reached unto the post, the gate being round about.
World English Bible
He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the gate.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he made frountes bi sixti cubitis, and at the frount an halle of the yate on ech side bi cumpas;
Update Bible Version
He also made posts, threescore cubits; and the court [went] all round the gate [reaching] to the posts.
Webster's Bible Translation
He made also posts of sixty cubits; even to the post of the court around the gate.
New English Translation
He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.
New King James Version
He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.
New Living Translation
He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.
New Life Bible
He showed me that it was twenty cubits around the walls inside the gateway, up to the porch facing the open space.
New Revised Standard
He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits; and the gate next to the pilaster on every side of the court.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the porch, twenty cubits, - even unto the projection of the court, the lodges of the gate round about on every side;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also fronts of sixty cubits: and to the front the court of the gate on every side round about.
Revised Standard Version
He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits; and round about the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the posts of sixty cubits, even unto the post of the court, the gate all round about;
THE MESSAGE
He measured the inside walls of the gate complex: ninety feet to the porch leading into the courtyard.

Contextual Overview

5 And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring-reed of six cubits, [each] of one cubit and a hand breadth. And he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 And he came to the gate which looked toward the east, and went up its steps; and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold one reed broad. 7 And [each] chamber was one reed long and one reed broad; and between the chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate, beside the porch of the gate within, was one reed. 8 And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9 And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. 10 And the chambers of the gate which was toward the east were three on this side and three on that side: they three were of one measure; and the posts on this side and on that side had one measure. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; [and] the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 And there was a border before the chambers of one cubit, and a border of one cubit on the other side; and the chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. 13 And he measured the gate from the roof of [one] chamber to the roof [of the other], a breadth of five and twenty cubits, entry opposite entry. 14 And he made posts, sixty cubits, and by the post was the court of the gate round about.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the court: Ezekiel 8:7, Ezekiel 42:1, Exodus 27:9, Exodus 35:17, Leviticus 6:16, 1 Chronicles 28:6, Psalms 100:4, Isaiah 62:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 41:21 - posts

Cross-References

Genesis 40:14
Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;
Genesis 40:15
for indeed I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Joshua 2:12
And now, I pray you, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye will also deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a certain sign,
1 Samuel 25:31
that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.
2 Samuel 9:1
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
1 Kings 2:7
But shew kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they came up to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
Luke 23:42
And he said to Jesus, Remember me, [Lord,] when thou comest in thy kingdom.
1 Corinthians 7:21
Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He made also posts of threescore cubits,.... Jerom thinks, that between the outward wall which surrounded this building, and the building itself, these posts or pillars were placed for ornament, which took up the space of sixty cubits; but rather these design the posts or columns of the gate, which supported the arch over it, on which were rooms or stories, and these were sixty cubits high; for of their height is this measure to be understood. So the Targum,

"and he made posts, sixty cubits was their height;''

in the Targum, in the Polyglot Bible by Montanus, it is,

"and he made sixty posts, their height a cubit:''

and to this agree Jarchi and Kimchi; these were thirty five yards high, the height of the temple ordered to be built by Cyrus, Ezra 6:3. The man that measured is said to "make" these posts, he being the builder as well as the measurer of this edifice; and might be said to make these as, by measuring, he pointed out the size and proportion of them: these posts may design the true members of Gospel churches, such who are pillars in the house of God; of which see more on Ezekiel 40:16, compare the phrase of "making" these posts or pillars with Revelation 3:12:

even unto the post of the court round about the gate; that is, there was the same measure to every post or pillar in every court, at every gate round about; at the southern and northern gates, as at this eastern one; they were all exactly of the same measure as the posts in this; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 אולם 'ûlâm; the Septuagint: αἰλάμ ailam; Vulgate: vestibulum. The word probably means porch or portico, connected with “ail” post or pillar.

Ezekiel 40:9

The porch is now measured from north to south in “wide.” “The breadth of the entry of the gate” was “ten cubits,” made up of the “eight cubits,” with “a cubit” for “a post” or pillar on each side Ezekiel 40:11.

Posts - A projection like a ram’s horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the “base” only Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:49. Here “post” represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

Ezekiel 40:10

In front of each guard-chamber were columns, whose “posts” (bases) were each one cubit square.

Ezekiel 40:11

The length of the gate - The length of the gateway (including the porch, E.) from the court to the uncovered space. The threshold was “six cubits,” and the porch “six.” In addition one cubit was probably allowed in front of the porch, as before the porch of the temple itself Ezekiel 40:49.

Ezekiel 40:13

This measurement is across the gate-building from north to south. The breadth of the gate-building was exactly half its length Ezekiel 40:15.

Ezekiel 40:14

Posts of threescore cubits - Sixty cubits were the length of a series of columns. This gives us another feature of the gate-building. Between the porch (E) and the two most western guard-chambers was a space of five cubits (through which the road passed), forming a kind of hall with columns along the sides. This hall is called the “arches” Ezekiel 40:16. A hall of the same dimensions was between the boundary wall and eastern guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:31. It is probable that in one of these halls (that of the eastern gateway of the inner court) the prince “ate bread” on solemn festivals Ezekiel 44:3.

Unto the post of the court round about the gate - This hall or colonnade extended the whole breadth of the building to the pavement (Ezekiel 40:18, H, Plan II). Outside the building on the pavement was a series of pillars.

Ezekiel 40:15

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:

Thickness of boundary wall 6 cubits
Hall of the entrance 5 cubits
Three guard-chambers (6 cubits) 18 cubits
Spaces between guard-chambers 10 cubits
Hall of the porch 5 cubits
The porch 6 cubits
Total 50 cubits

Ezekiel 40:16

The “narrow” (closed and (?)latticed “windows” lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the “post” stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.


 
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