Ezekiel 40:24
 Ezekiel 40:24 
New International Version (©2011)
Then he led me to the south side and I saw the south gate. He measured its jambs and its portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He brought me to the south side, and there was also a gate on the south. He measured its pilasters and portico; they had the same measurements as the others.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then he led me toward the south, where there was a gate with side pillar and porch measurements identical to the others.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the man led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its recessed walls and its entrance hall. They were the same size as those of the other gateways.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and arches according to these same measurements.

American King James Version
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

American Standard Version
And he led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the gate that looked to the south : and he measured the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the former measures.

Darby Bible Translation
And he brought me toward the south: and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its posts and its projections according to these measures.

English Revised Version
And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

Webster's Bible Translation
After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

World English Bible
He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

Young's Literal Translation
And he causeth me to go southward, and lo, a gate southward, and he hath measured its posts and its arches according to these measures;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:1-49 The Vision of the Temple. - Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear. But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in the midst of the earth, Ps 74:12, to be looked unto from all quarters.


Pulpit Commentary

Verses 24-27. - The south gate. Here again the same details recur as to the structure of the gate, its dimensions, and distance from the gate which led into the inner court.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

After that he brought me toward the south,.... Having taken the dimensions of the east and north gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the building:

and behold a gate toward the south; that led to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward court there, exactly like the other two; there was no difference in them, which raised the prophet's wonder and attention; for, as Lipman (k) says, there was no outward court in the second temple, but to the east of the inward; and it did not encompass the other sides; and so the more wonderful:

and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according, to these measures; the measures of the east and north gates, which were just alike; for these all signified but one gateway or door into the church below, into heaven above, or into the presence of God here and hereafter, which is Christ, John 14:6.

(k) Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 17.


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The South Gate
24After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. 25And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts thereof. …

Ezekiel 40:6 Then he went to the east gate. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep.
Ezekiel 40:20 Then he measured the length and width of the north gate, leading into the outer court.
Ezekiel 40:21 Its alcoves--three on each side--its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Ezekiel 46:9 "'When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate.