Ezekiel 40:37

37 The entrance room faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees were carved on the walls along the passageway. Eight steps led up to this gate.

Ezekiel 40:37 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:37

(See Gill on Ezekiel 40:35).

Ezekiel 40:37 In-Context

35 Then the man took me to the north gateway. He measured it, and it was the same size as the others.

36 Like them, it also had guardrooms, decorated inner walls, an entrance room, and windows all around. Its total length was 84 feet and its width 42 feet.

37 The entrance room faced the outer courtyard. Palm trees were carved on the walls along the passageway. Eight steps led up to this gate.

38 In the outer courtyard there was an annex attached to the inner gateway on the north side. It opened into the entrance room that faced the courtyard, and there they washed the carcasses of the animals to be burned whole as sacrifices.

39 In this entrance room there were four tables, two on each side of the room. It was on these tables that they killed the animals to be offered as sacrifices, either to be burned whole or to be sacrifices for sin or as repayment offerings.

Footnotes

• [a]. [Some ancient translations] entrance room; [Hebrew] inner wall.