because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors –

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’

I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens the door, no one can close it; when he closes the door, no one can open it.

The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. No one will be able to go in or out of them. All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.’”

He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.

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.

One of them said, “I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

“This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.

He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the Lord.

He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.