Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.
- BSB Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- NKJV Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
- NASB Then he brought me into the outer courtyard, and behold, there were chambers and a stone pavement made for the courtyard all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
- NLT Then the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the Temple. A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto the pavement.
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Quick answer
The guide brings Ezekiel into the outer court with its pavement and thirty rooms. The vision moves from the gate into the courtyard.
Overview
Entering the outer court, Ezekiel sees a pavement encircling it and thirty chambers built along the pavement. These rooms likely served various functions for worshipers and temple service. The expanding vision of courts and chambers portrays a place prepared for the gathered worship of God's people, foreshadowing the community of the redeemed who together draw near to God in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 11:2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
- Ezek 42:1Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
- Ezek 45:5And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
- Ezek 46:21Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
- 1 Chr 9:26For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
- 1 Chr 23:28Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
- Ezek 10:5And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
- 2 Chr 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
- Ezek 40:38And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
- 1 Kgs 6:5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
- 2 Kgs 23:11And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
- Ezek 41:6And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
- Ezek 42:4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
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