Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind¹ lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.²

Ezekiel 40:6

40:6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.³

Ezekiel 40:21

40:21 Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet⁴ long and 43¾ feet⁵ wide.

Ezekiel 40:48

40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet⁶ on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet⁷ and the sides⁸ were 5¼ feet⁹ on each side.

Ezekiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

Ezekiel 46:19

46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw¹⁰ a place at the extreme western end.

¹tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

²sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

³tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.

⁵tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

⁶tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

⁷tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

⁸tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

⁹tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

¹⁰tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

⁹tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.