Ezekiel 40:47
Hebrew Text— Ezekiel 40:47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square. The altar was before the house.
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The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
He brought me into the inner court toward the east. He measured the gate according to these measurements;
He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
Then he measured the width from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
There was a gate to the inner court facing the other gate, on the north and on the east. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate.
There was a gate to the inner court toward the south. He measured one hundred cubits from gate to gate toward the south.
He brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements;
So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;
“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.
He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate according to these measurements;
Its posts were toward the outer court. Palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side. The ascent to it had eight steps.
Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They faced toward the south. One at the side of the east gate faced toward the north.
Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.
The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.