Ezekiel 40:28
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New International Version (©2011)
Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the man took me to the south gateway leading into the inner courtyard. He measured it, and it had the same measurements as the other gateways.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate. When he measured the south gate, it had the same measurements as the others.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next, he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the south-facing gate. He measured the south-facing gate as having measurements identical to the others.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the man brought me to the inner courtyard through the south gateway. He measured the south gateway. It was the same size as the others.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these same measurements;

American King James Version
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

American Standard Version
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate : and he measured the gate according to the former measures.

Darby Bible Translation
And he brought me into the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to these measures:

English Revised Version
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

World English Bible
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

Young's Literal Translation
And he bringeth me in unto the inner court by the south gate, and he measureth the south gate 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 28-47. - The inner court, with its gates, chambers and slaughtering-tables:

(1) the south gate (vers. 28-31);

(2) the cast gate (vers. 32-34);

(3) the north gate (vers. 35-37);

(4)the arrangements for sacrifice (vers. 38-43); and

(5) the chambers for the officiating priests (vers. 44-47). Verses 28-31. - The south gate of the inner court. The construction and measurements of this corresponded with those of the gates in the outer court, with only two points of difference, viz. that it possessed a flight of eight steps instead of seven, and that the arches, or wall-projections, were toward the outer court. The difference in the number of the steps was doubtless of symbolic significance, and pointed not only to the higher sanctity in general which attached to the inner court, but to the truth that, as one approached the dwelling-place of Jehovah, an increasing measure and degree of holiness were demanded - what Plumptre styles "an ever-ascending sursum corda." The seven steps of the outer door added to the eight steps of this amount to fifteen, with which corresponds the number of the pilgrim-psalms (Psalm 120-134.), which are supposed to have been sung, one upon each step, by the choir of Levites as they ascended first into the outer and then into the inner court. The statement that the wall-projections were towards the outer court showed that, in walking through the inner gateway, one would reverse the order of the outer gate, i.e. would first pass through the porch, then cross the threshold to the guard-rooms, next step upon the second threshold, and finally enter the inner court.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate,.... Having done with the outer court, east, north, and south, the prophet is brought into the inner court by the south gate, which was nearest to enter by. No mention is made of a western gate, there was one in Solomon's temple; for there were porters appointed westward by David, and fixed by Solomon, 1 Chronicles 9:24, but Josephus (l) says, in the second temple the western part had no gate, but a continued wall; for those that came out of the captivity, as Kimchi on Ezekiel 40:5 observes, built it (as much as they could) according to the form of what they saw in Ezekiel's temple, which shall be in time to come.

And he measured the south gate according to these measures; the gate which led into the inner court; for the south gate, which led to the outward court, he had measured before, Ezekiel 40:21.

(l) De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 5. sect. 2. Vid. Lipman, Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 12.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28-37. The inner court and its gates.

according to these measures—namely, the measures of the outer gate. The figure and proportions of the inner answered to the outer.

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The Gates of the Inner Court
28And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; 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. 30And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. …

Ezekiel 40:32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.
Ezekiel 40:35 Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,
Ezekiel 42:1 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.