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King James Version

Ezekiel 42:2

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

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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 87˝ feet.
Hebrew Names Version
Before the length of one 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

1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

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 pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Genesis 43:4
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
Genesis 43:8
And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis 45:9
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
Psalms 118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord .
Isaiah 38:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth 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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