Ezekiel 40:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep. There were

Cross References

1 Kings 6:8

The entrance for the lower story was on the south side of the house: one went up by winding stairs to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.

1 Chronicles 9:18

stationed previously in the king’s gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers of the camp of the Levites.

1 Chronicles 9:24

The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north, and south;

Nehemiah 3:29

After them Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, made repairs.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

Jeremiah 19:2

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

Ezekiel 10:18

Then the glory of the Lord went out from the entryway of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

Ezekiel 11:1

The spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east. There, at the entrance of the gateway, were twenty-five men; among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.

Ezekiel 40:20

Then he measured the gate of the outer court that faced north—its depth and width.

Ezekiel 40:22

Its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. Seven steps led up to it, and its vestibule was on the inside.

Ezekiel 40:24

Then he led me toward the south, and there was a gate on the south, and he measured its posts and its vestibule; they had the same dimensions as the others.

Ezekiel 40:26

There were seven steps leading up to it; its vestibule was on the inside. It had palm trees on its posts, one on either side.

Ezekiel 40:5

Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area. The length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length, so he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed, and the height, one reed.

Ezekiel 40:7

recesses, and each recess was one reed wide and one reed deep, and the space between the recesses, five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end was one reed deep.

Ezekiel 41:16

were paneled, and all around all three had windows with recessed frames. Facing the threshold, the temple was paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered).

Ezekiel 42:15

When he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faces east and measured the temple area all around.

Ezekiel 43:1

Then he brought me to the gate, the gate facing east.

Ezekiel 43:17

The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide, with a rim around it half a cubit high, and its surrounding base, one cubit. Its steps shall face east.”

Ezekiel 43:8

When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they were defiling my holy name by their abominations that they committed; therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 44:1

Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faces east, and it was shut.

Ezekiel 46:12

When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or offerings of well-being as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him, and he shall offer his burnt offering or his offerings of well-being as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be closed.

Ezekiel 47:1

Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there water was flowing from below the entryway of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east), and the water was flowing down from below the south side of the temple, south of the altar.

Ezekiel 8:16

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; there, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, prostrating themselves to the sun toward the east.