Ezekiel 40:9
 Ezekiel 40:9 
New International Version (©2011)
it was eight cubits deep and its jambs were two cubits thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It was 14 feet across, with supporting columns 3-1/2 feet thick. This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure, facing toward the Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was faced inward.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
it was 14 feet, and its pilasters were 3 1/2 feet. The portico of the gate was on the temple side.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He measured the vestibule of the gate inside at eight cubits and the doorjambs at two cubits. (The vestibule at the gate faced away from the Temple.)

NET Bible (©2006)
He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It extended 14 feet from the temple. Its recessed walls were 31/2 feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the temple.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inside.

American King James Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

American Standard Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the porch of the gate eight cubits, and the front thereof two cubits: and the porch of the gate was inward.

Darby Bible Translation
And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

English Revised Version
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

World English Bible
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Young's Literal Translation
and he measureth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within,

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.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits,.... This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman (z); since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over:

and the posts thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in Ezekiel 40:11 what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on Ezekiel 40:14,

and the porch of the gate was inward; this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.

(z) Ibid. (Lipman. Tzaurath Beth Hamikdash), sect. 6.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. posts—projecting column-faced fronts of the sides of the doorway, opposite to one another.


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The East Gate
8He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. 10And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. …

Ezekiel 40:8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway;
Ezekiel 40:10 Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements.
Ezekiel 41:1 Then the man brought me to the main hall and measured the jambs; the width of the jambs was six cubits on each side.
Ezekiel 41:21 The main hall had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar.
Ezekiel 41:26 On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.
Ezekiel 44:3 The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way."