Ezekiel 40:41-49

41 So there were four tables on one side of the gateway and four on the other—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were slaughtered.
42 There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offerings, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit high.[a] On them were placed the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
43 And double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth[b] long, were attached to the wall all around. The tables were for the flesh of the offerings.

The Rooms for the Priests

44 Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one[c] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south[d] gate and facing north.
45 He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,
46 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.”
47 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.
48 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[e] and its projecting walls were[f] three cubits[g] wide on either side.
49 The portico was twenty cubits[h] wide, and twelve[i] cubits[j] from front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs,[k] and there were pillars on each side of the jambs.

Cross References 11

  • 1. Exodus 20:25
  • 2. ver 39
  • 3. 1 Chronicles 9:23
  • 4. Ezekiel 42:13
  • 5. Numbers 18:5
  • 6. S 2 Samuel 8:17; S Ezra 7:2; 1 Kings 2:35
  • 7. Numbers 16:5; Ezekiel 43:19; Ezekiel 44:15; Ezekiel 45:4; Ezekiel 48:11
  • 8. Ezekiel 41:13-14
  • 9. 1 Kings 6:2
  • 10. ver 22; 1 Kings 6:3
  • 11. S 1 Kings 7:15

Footnotes 11

  • [a]. That is, about 2 2/3 feet long and wide and 21 inches high or about 80 centimeters long and wide and 53 centimeters high
  • [b]. That is, about 3 1/2 inches or about 9 centimeters
  • [c]. Septuagint; Hebrew "were rooms for singers, which were"
  • [d]. Septuagint; Hebrew "east"
  • [e]. That is, about 25 feet or about 7.4 meters
  • [f]. Septuagint; Hebrew "entrance was"
  • [g]. That is, about 5 1/4 feet or about 1.6 meters
  • [h]. That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
  • [i]. Septuagint; Hebrew "eleven"
  • [j]. That is, about 21 feet or about 6.4 meters
  • [k]. Hebrew; Septuagint "Ten steps led up to it"
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