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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 42:2

This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1⁄2 feet wide.

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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.
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 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 the man led me out of the Temple courtyard by way of the north gateway. We entered the outer courtyard and came to a group of rooms against the north wall of the inner courtyard. 2 This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 1⁄2 feet wide. 3 One block of rooms overlooked the 35-foot width of the inner courtyard. Another block of rooms looked out onto the pavement of the outer courtyard. The two blocks were built three levels high and stood across from each other. 4 Between the two blocks of rooms ran a walkway 17 1⁄2 feet wide. It extended the entire 175 feet of the complex, and all the doors faced north. 5 Each of the two upper levels of rooms was narrower than the one beneath it because the upper levels had to allow space for walkways in front of them. 6 Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it. 7 There was an outer wall that separated the rooms from the outer courtyard; it was 87 1⁄2 feet long. 8 This wall added length to the outer block of rooms, which extended for only 87 1⁄2 feet, while the inner block—the rooms toward the Temple—extended for 175 feet. 9 There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms. 10 On the south side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north.

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
When the grain they had brought from Egypt was almost gone, Jacob said to his sons, "Go back and buy us a little more food."
Genesis 43:4
If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.
Genesis 43:8
Judah said to his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.
Genesis 45:9
"Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately!
Psalms 118:17
I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.
Isaiah 38:1
About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: "This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.'"
Matthew 4:4
But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from 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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