Ezekiel 47:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.

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  • Ps 46:4 : 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
  • Joel 3:18 : 18 Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.
  • Zech 14:8 : 8 And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,
  • Isa 55:1 : 1 Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.
  • Isa 30:25 : 25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.
  • Ezek 47:12 : 12 And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.
  • Isa 2:3 : 3 And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 41:2 : 2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.
  • Ezek 41:23-26 : 23 The Temple had two doors. 24 And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other. 25 And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside. 26 And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...
  • John 7:37-39 : 37 On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him. 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water. 39 This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 47:2-8
    7 verses
    88%

    2 And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.

    3 And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.

    4 And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body.

    5 Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.

    6 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge.

    7 And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.

    8 And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.

  • Ezek 43:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 And he took me to the doorway looking to the east:

    2 And there was the glory of the God of Israel coming from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of great waters, and the earth was shining with his glory.

  • Ezek 42:1-2
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    78%

    1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.

    2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

  • Ezek 42:15
    76%

    15 And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

  • Ezek 44:1
    75%

    1 And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.

  • Ezek 46:19
    75%

    19 And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.

  • Ezek 40:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 And there was a doorway to the inner square opposite the doorway on the north, like the doorway on the east; and he took the measure from doorway to doorway, a hundred cubits.

    24 And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.

  • Ezek 40:47-49
    3 verses
    74%

    47 And he took the measure of the open square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, being square; and the altar was in front of the house.

    48 Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.

    49 The covered way was twenty cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars by the uprights, one on one side and one on the other.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27 And there was a doorway to the inner square looking to the south: he took the measure from doorway to doorway to the south, a hundred cubits.

    28 Then he took me to the inner square by the south doorway: and he took the measure of the south doorway by these measures;

  • Ezek 44:4
    73%

    4 And he took me to the north doorway in front of the house; and, looking, I saw that the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord; and I went down on my face.

  • Ezek 40:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17 Then he took me into the outer square, and there were rooms and a stone floor made for the open square all round: there were thirty rooms on the stone floor.

    18 And the stone floor was by the side of the doorways, and was as wide as the doorways were long, even the lower floor.

    19 Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,

  • Ezek 40:32
    73%

    32 And he took me into the inner square facing the east: and he took the measure of the doorway by these measures;

  • Ezek 42:9-12
    4 verses
    72%

    9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall.

    10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

    11 And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.

    12 And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.

  • Ezek 40:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.

    7 And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.

  • Ezek 8:7
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    7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

  • 1 Kgs 18:35
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    35 And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

  • Rev 22:1
    72%

    1 And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

  • Ezek 43:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east.

    5 And the spirit, lifting me up, took me into the inner square; and I saw that the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

    6 And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.

  • Ezek 40:35
    72%

    35 And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;

  • Ezek 41:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.

    2 And the door-opening was ten cubits wide; and the side walls of the door-opening were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and it was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

    3 And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.

  • Ezek 40:45
    71%

    45 And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.

  • Ezek 46:21
    71%

    21 And he took me out into the outer square and made me go by the four angles of the square; and I saw that in every angle of the open square there was a space shut in.

  • Neh 12:37
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    37 And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

  • Ezek 41:17
    70%

    17 And there was a roof over the doorway and as far as the inner house, and to the outside and on the wall all round, inside and outside.

  • Zech 14:8
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    8 And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.

  • Ezek 40:2
    70%

    2 In the visions of God he took me into the land of Israel, and put me down on a very high mountain, on which there was, as it seemed, a building like a town opposite me.

  • 2 Chr 4:10
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    10 He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    69%

    17 And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.