Ezekiel 40:9

Myles Coverdale Bible

The measured he the entrie of the dore, that conteyned eght cubites, and his pilers two cubites: and this entrie stode inwarde.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
it was 14 feet, and its jambs were 3½ feet. The gate’s portico was on the temple side.

Hebrew Names Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

King James Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

English Standard Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

New American Standard Bible
And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

New Century Version
It was about fourteen feet deep, and its side walls were three and one-half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the Temple.

Amplified Bible
Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and its side pillars, two cubits. The porch of the gate faced inward [toward the temple of the LORD].

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then measured he the porch of the gate of eight cubites, and the postes thereof, of two cubites, and the porch of the gate was inward.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

Legacy Standard Bible
He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

Berean Standard Bible
it was eight cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then he measured the gate's entranceway itself, fourteen feet, and its supports, three-and-a-half feet; the gate's entranceway was on the side facing the house.

Darby Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

Easy-to-Read Version
It was 8 cubits long. He measured the walls on either side of the gate. Each side wall was 2 cubits wide. The porch was at the end of the gateway that faced the Temple.

George Lamsa Translation
Then he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits; and its posts from within two cubits.

Lexham English Bible
And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits, and its pilaster was two cubits thick, and he measured the portico of the gate on the inside.

Literal Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its pillars, two cubits, also the porch of the gate from the house.

American Standard Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Bible in Basic English
Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

King James Version (1611)
Then measured hee the porch of the gate, eight cubites, and the postes thereof two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then measured he the porche of the gate eyght cubites: & the pentises therof two cubites, and the porche of the gate [was] inwarde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward:

English Revised Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

World English Bible
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he mat the porch of the yate of eiyte cubitis, and the frount therof bi twei cubitis; sotheli the porche of the yate was with ynne.

Update Bible Version
eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was] inward.

New English Translation
He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

New King James Version
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the gate was on the inside.

New Living Translation
It was 14 feet across, with supporting columns 3 1⁄2 feet thick. This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure, facing toward the Temple.

New Life Bible
The porch of the gate was eight cubits and its side pillars two cubits wide. The porch of the gate was on the inside.

New Revised Standard
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its pilasters, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and the projections thereof two cubits, - and the porch of the gate was within,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward.

Revised Standard Version
and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

Young's Literal Translation
and he measureth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within,

Contextual Overview

⁵ Beholde, there was a wall on the outsyde rounde aboute the house: the meterodde that he had in his honde, was six cubites longe & a spanne. So he measured the bredth of the buyldinge, which was a meterodde, and the heyth also a meterodde. ⁶ Then came he vnto the eastdore, and wente vp the stares, & measured the postes of the dore: wherof euery one was a meterodde thicke. Euery chambre was a meterodde longe and brode: ⁷ betwene the chambers were fyue cubites. The poste of the dore within the porche, was one meterodde. ⁸ He measured also the porche of the ynnermer dore, which conteyned a meterodde. ⁹ The measured he the entrie of the dore, that conteyned eght cubites, and his pilers two cubites: and this entrie stode inwarde. ¹⁰ The chambers of the dore eastwarde, were thre on euery syde: alike brode and longe. The pilers also that stode of both the sydes, were of one measure. ¹¹ After this, he measured the wydenesse of the dore: which was x cubites, & the heyth of the dore xiij cubites. ¹² The edge before the chabres was one cubite brode vpo both the sydes, & the chambres six cubites wyde of either syde. ¹³ He measured ye dore from the rygge of one chabre to another, whose wydenesse was xxv cubites, & one dore stode agaynst another. ¹⁴ He made pilers also lx cubites hie, rounde aboute the courte dore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the posts: Ezekiel 45:19

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 28:11 - the porch Ezekiel 44:3 - he shall enter

Cross-References

Genesis 40:5
And they dreamed, both the butlar & the baker in one night, euery ma his owne dreame, and euery dreame had his interpretacio.

Genesis 40:10
which had thre braunches, and it budded, grewe and bare blossoms, and the grapes ther of were rype.

Genesis 40:13
The thre braunches are thre dayes, and ouer thre dayes shall Pharao take the, and putt the in thine office agayne, that thou mayest geue him the cuppe in his hande after the olde maner, wha thou wast his butlar.

Genesis 40:15
for I was preuely caried out of the lande of the Hebrues, and here also haue I done nothinge, that they shulde haue put me in this dongeon.

Genesis 40:18
Ioseph answered, and sayde: This is the interpretacion: The thre baßkettes are thre dayes,

Daniel 2:31
Thou kynge sawest, and beholde: there stode before the a greate ymage, whose fygure was maruelous greate, and his vysage grymme.

Daniel 4:8
till at the last, there came one Daniel (otherwyse called Balthasar, acordinge to the name of my God) which hath the sprete of the holy goddes in him: to whom I tolde the dreame, sayenge:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits,.... This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman z; since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over:

and the posts thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in Ezekiel 40:11 what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on Ezekiel 40:14:

and the porch of the gate was inward; this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.

z Ibid. (Lipman. Tzaurath Beth Hamikdash), sect. 6.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 40:9. The porch of the gate — See account of the gates in the plan. Ezekiel 48:35