The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 42:9 (NIV)

The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

 

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Ezekiel 42:10 (NIV)

On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall,
were rooms

 

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Ezekiel 42:11 (NIV)

with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width,
with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north

 

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Ezekiel 42:12 (NIV)

were the doorways of the rooms on the south. There was a doorway at the beginning of the passageway that was parallel
to the corresponding wall extending eastward, by which one enters the rooms.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:13 (NIV)

Then he said to me, ‘The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests’ rooms, where the priests who approach
the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings – the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the
guilt offerings – for the place is holy.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:14 (NIV)

Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which
they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 42:15 (NIV)

When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:

 

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Ezekiel 42:16 (NIV)

he measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.

 

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Ezekiel 42:17 (NIV)

He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

 

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Ezekiel 42:18 (NIV)

He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

 

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Ezekiel 42:19 (NIV)

Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

 

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Ezekiel 42:20 (NIV)

So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall round it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide,
to separate the holy from the common.

 

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Ezekiel 43:1 (NIV)

Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,

 

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Ezekiel 43:2 (NIV)

and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters,
and the land was radiant with his glory.

 

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Ezekiel 43:3 (NIV)

The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the River Kebar,
and I fell face down.

 

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Ezekiel 43:4 (NIV)

The glory of the Lord entered the temple through the gate facing east.

 

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Ezekiel 43:5 (NIV)

Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

 

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Ezekiel 43:6 (ESV)

While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple,

 

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Ezekiel 43:7 (ESV)

and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of
the people of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,

 

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Ezekiel 43:8 (ESV)

by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them.
They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.