Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 8:5

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ⁵  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

Ezekiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁶  six men ⁷  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁸  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁹  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ¹⁰  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ¹¹  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 21:22

21:22 Into his right hand ¹²  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ¹³  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ¹⁴  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

Ezekiel 40:16

40:16 There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. ¹⁵ 

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 feet ¹⁶  long and 43¾ feet ¹⁷  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 feet ¹⁸  on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet ¹⁹  and the sides ²⁰  were 5¼ feet ²¹  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 44:11

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

Ezekiel 46:1

The Prince’s Offerings

46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east ²²  will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

¹ 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).

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

³ 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.

⁴ tn Or “image.”

⁵ tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”

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

¹⁰ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

¹¹ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

¹² tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

¹³ tn Heb “lifted.”

¹⁴ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

¹⁷ tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

¹⁸ tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

¹⁹ tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”

²¹ sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).

²⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

²⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

²⁹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

³⁰ tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

³¹ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

³² tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

³³ sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).