Ezekiel 40:30

30 The vestibule of each of the gate complexes leading to the inside courtyard was forty-three and three-quarters by eight and three-quarters feet.

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 led me into the inside courtyard through the south gate complex. He measured it and found it the same as the outside ones.

29 Its alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule were the same. The gate complex and porch, windowed all around, measured eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet.

30 The vestibule of each of the gate complexes leading to the inside courtyard was forty-three and three-quarters by eight and three-quarters feet.

31 Each vestibule faced the outside courtyard. Palm trees were carved on its doorposts. Eight steps led up to it.

32 He then took me to the inside courtyard on the east and measured the gate complex. It was identical to the others -