The guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room of this gateway had the same measurements as in the others and the same window arrangements. The gateway passage measured 87-1/2 feet long and 43-3/4 feet wide.
Parallel translations
- WEB its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
- KJV The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
- BSB as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- NKJV also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways. It had windows all around; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
- NASB with its guardrooms, its side pillars, and its porches. And the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.
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Quick answer
The inner north gate's rooms, posts, arches, and windows match, fifty by twenty-five cubits. Its measures mirror the other inner gates.
Overview
The lodges, posts, and arches of the inner north gate, with its surrounding windows, measure fifty cubits long and twenty-five wide. The northern inner gate conforms fully to the established design. This thorough uniformity across all the gates continues to emphasize the ordered perfection of God's house, prepared in every detail for His holy presence.
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Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 40:29and its lodges, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measurements: and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezek 40:21The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
- Ezek 40:16There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate all around, and likewise to the arches; and windows were around inward; and on each post were palm trees.
- Ezek 40:7Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed wide; and between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
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