Ezekiel 40:30

30 There was a vestibule around it forty-three-and-three-quarters feet long and eight-and-three-quarters feet wide;

Ezekiel 40:30 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:30

And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,
&c.] That is, high; this was the height of them; these were the frontispiece of the gate to the inner court without, and faced the outward court, as appears by the following verse; these were a kind of portico over the eight steps to this gate after mentioned; they were fourteen yards and three inches high, from the bottom to the top of them: and five cubits broad;
two yards and a half, one foot and three inches; and which very probably were the breadth of the steps that came up to them: none of these arches were in the second temple, as Lipman ^F13 observes.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 22.

Ezekiel 40:30 In-Context

28 He brought me to the inner courtyard through its south gate. He measured this south gate as being the same size;

29 its guardrooms, supports and vestibule were the same size; it had windows and a vestibule surrounding it; it was eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and forty-three-and-three-quarters feet wide.

30 There was a vestibule around it forty-three-and-three-quarters feet long and eight-and-three-quarters feet wide;

31 this vestibule faced the outer courtyard, palm trees were on its supports, and it had eight steps leading up to it.

32 He brought me into the inner courtyard, went toward the east and measured that gate as being the same size;