Ezekiel 40:13

40:13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet ¹  from one entrance to the opposite one.

Ezekiel 8:7-8

8:7 He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall. 8:8 He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

Ezekiel 40:11

40:11 He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, ²  and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet. ³ 

Ezekiel 42:2

42:2 Its length was 175 feet ⁴  on the north side, ⁵  and its width 87½ feet. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 46:3

46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

Ezekiel 8:14

8:14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed ⁷  women sitting there weeping for Tammuz. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 25:9

25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, ⁹  eliminating the cities, ¹⁰  including its frontier cities, ¹¹  the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.

Ezekiel 41:11

41:11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet ¹²  all around.

Ezekiel 42:12

42:12 were the chambers ¹³  which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹⁴  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ¹⁵  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ¹⁶  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ¹⁷  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 8:16

8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there ¹⁸  at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, ¹⁹  were about twenty-five ²⁰  men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, ²¹  facing east – they were worshiping the sun ²²  toward the east!

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ²³  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ²⁴  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Ezekiel 37:12

37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:1

Water from the Temple

47:1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed ²⁵  that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.

¹ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

² tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

³ tn Heb “thirteen cubits” (i.e., 6.825 meters).

³ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

⁴ tn Heb “the door of the north.”

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

⁴ tn Given the context this could be understood as a shock, e.g., idiomatically “Good grief! I saw….”

⁵ sn The worship of Tammuz included the observation of the annual death and descent into the netherworld of the god Dumuzi. The practice was observed by women in the ancient Near East over a period of centuries.

⁵ tn Heb “shoulder.”

⁶ tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).

⁷ tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”

⁶ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

⁷ tc The MT apparently evidences dittography, repeating most of the last word of the previous verse: “and like the openings of.”

⁸ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

⁹ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

¹⁰ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹¹ tn Or “image.”

⁹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.

¹⁰ sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).

¹¹ tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.

¹² sn The temple faced east.

¹³ tn Or “the sun god.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “lifted.”

¹¹ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

¹¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.