The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 40:44 (NIV)

Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another
at the side of the south gate and facing north.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:45 (NIV)

He said to me, ‘The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:46 (NIV)

and the room facing north is for the priests who guard the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites
who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:47 (NIV)

Then he measured the court: it was square –a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:48 (NIV)

He brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the jambs of the portico; they were five cubits wide on either side.
The width of the entrance was fourteen cubits and its projecting walls were three cubits wide on either side.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 40:49 (NIV)

The portico was twenty cubits wide, and twelve cubits from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs, and there were pillars
on each side of the jambs.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:1 (NIV)

Then the man brought me to the main hall and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits on each side.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:2 (NIV)

The entrance was ten cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were five cubits wide. He also measured the main hall;
it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:3 (NIV)

Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance; each was two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the projecting walls on each side of it were seven cubits wide.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:4 (NIV)

And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, ‘This is the Most Holy Place.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:5 (NIV)

Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:6 (NIV)

The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple
to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:7 (NIV)

The side rooms all around the temple were wider at each successive level. The structure surrounding the temple was built in ascending stages, so that the rooms widened as one went upward. A stairway went up from the lowest floor to the top floor through the middle floor.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:8 (NIV)

I saw that the temple had a raised base all round it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the length of the rod,
six long cubits.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:9 (NIV)

The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:10 (NIV)

and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all round the temple.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:11 (NIV)

There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining
the open area was five cubits wide all round.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:12 (NIV)

The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits
thick all round, and its length was ninety cubits.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:13 (NIV)

Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also
a hundred cubits long.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 41:14 (NIV)

The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.