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JPS Old Testament

Ezekiel 41:23

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Palm, Palm Tree,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Gate;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cherubim (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cherub;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The great hall and the sanctuary each had a double door,
Hebrew Names Version
The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
King James Version
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
English Standard Version
The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door.
New American Standard Bible
The sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.
New Century Version
Both the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had double doors.
Amplified Bible
The nave (Holy Place) and the sanctuary (Holy of Holies) each had a double door.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Temple and the Sanctuarie had two doores.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door.
Legacy Standard Bible
The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door.
Berean Standard Bible
Both the outer sanctuary and the sanctuary had double doors,
Contemporary English Version
Both the doorway to the main room of the temple and the doorway to the most holy place had two doors,
Complete Jewish Bible
The sanctuary had two doors, and the [Especially] Holy Place
Darby Translation
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Easy-to-Read Version
Both the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had a double door.
George Lamsa Translation
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Good News Translation
There was a door at the end of the passageway to the Holy Place and one also at the end of the passageway to the Most Holy Place.
Lexham English Bible
And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary.
Literal Translation
And two doors were to the temple and the sanctuary.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The temple and the holiest of all had ether of them two dores,
American Standard Version
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Bible in Basic English
The Temple had two doors.
King James Version (1611)
And the Temple and the Sanctuarie had two doores.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The temple and the holiest of all had either of them two doores.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the temple had two doors, and the sanctuary had two doors, with two turning leaves apiece;
English Revised Version
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
World English Bible
The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And twei doris weren in the temple, and in the seyntuarie.
Update Bible Version
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
New English Translation
The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door.
New King James Version
The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
New Living Translation
Both the sanctuary and the Most Holy Place had double doorways,
New Life Bible
The center room and the most holy place each had two doors.
New Revised Standard
The nave and the holy place had each a double door.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there were two doors, to the temple, and to the holy place;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary.
Revised Standard Version
The nave and the holy place had each a double door.
Young's Literal Translation
And two doors [are] to the temple and to the sanctuary;
THE MESSAGE
Both the main Sanctuary and the Holy Place had double doors. Each door had two leaves: two hinged leaves for each door, one set swinging inward and the other set outward. The doors of the main Sanctuary were carved with angel-cherubim and palm trees. There was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. There were narrow windows alternating with carved palm trees on both sides of the porch.

Contextual Overview

12 And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 And he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 14 also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits. Now the temple, and the inner place, and the porches of the court, 16 the jambs, and the narrow windows, and the galleries, that they three had round about, over against the jambs there was a veneering of wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered; 17 to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and on all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; 19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side; thus was it made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made; and so on the wall of the temple. 21 As for the temple, the jambs were squared; and the face of the sanctuary had an appearance such as is the appearance.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 6:31-35, 2 Chronicles 4:22

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:34 - the two leaves Ezekiel 10:7 - and went Ezekiel 47:1 - the door

Cross-References

Genesis 41:6
And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41:7
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
Hosea 13:15
For though he be fruitful among the reed-plants, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all precious vessels.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. Or the house of propitiatory, as the Targum; that is, the most holy place; not two doors apiece, but each had one door, which made two; the door of the temple was ten cubits broad, and the door of the most holy place six cubits, Ezekiel 41:2 showing the door is wider, and more enter into the outward visible church, or less perfect state, even some bad, as well as good, than the door of the Jerusalem church state, or heavenly glory, into which fewer enter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal reference.

Ezekiel 41:25

Thick planks - Others render it: leaves in wood (and in Ezekiel 41:26).


 
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