And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.
Parallel translations
- WEB Every 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.
- BSB Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.
- NKJV Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod.
- NASB The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.
- NLT There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10-1/2 feet square, with a distance between them of 8-3/4 feet along the passage wall. The gateway’s inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10-1/2 feet front to back.
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Quick answer
The guardrooms, the spaces between them, and the inner threshold are measured. The gateway's complex structure is recorded in detail.
Overview
The measuring continues through the lodges (guardrooms) of the gateway, each one reed square, with five cubits between them, and the threshold by the gate's porch toward the temple measured at one reed. These guardrooms suggest both the dignity and the guarded holiness of the entrance. The precise architecture reflects an ordered approach to God, a holiness that in Christ is opened to all who draw near by faith.
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- Ezek 40:36The 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.
- 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 40:29And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
- 1 Kgs 6:5–10And 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:
- Jer 35:4And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
- Ezek 40:33And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
- 2 Chr 3:9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
- 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.
- Ezek 42:5Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
- 2 Chr 31:11Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
- Ezra 8:29Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
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