Ezekiel 40:45

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then he said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.

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  • 1 Chr 9:23 : 23 They and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by divisions.
  • Lev 8:35 : 35 Therefore, you shall abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD, lest you die; for so I am commanded.
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 Behold, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD.
  • Ezek 8:5 : 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
  • Mal 2:4-7 : 4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 O Timothy, guard what has been committed to your trust, avoiding profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge;
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Num 3:27-28 : 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the Izeharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. 28 The total number of all the males from a month old and above was eight thousand and six hundred, assigned duties for the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:32 : 32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the leaders of the Levites and have the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:38 : 38 But those who camp before the tabernacle on the east, toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, Aaron, and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Num 18:5 : 5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
  • 2 Chr 13:11 : 11 And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: they also set the showbread in order upon the pure table; and the gold lampstand with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but you have forsaken him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 40:46-47
    2 verses
    89%

    46The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, who are from the sons of Levi, who come near to the LORD to minister to Him."

    47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare; and the altar was in front of the temple.

  • Ezek 40:44
    86%

    44Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, one facing south at the side of the north gate, and another facing north at the side of the east gate.

  • Ezek 46:19
    81%

    19After he brought me through the entry at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which faced toward the north: and, behold, there was a place at the two sides westward.

  • Ezek 42:7-15
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    80%

    7And the wall that was outside opposite the chambers, toward the outer court on the front of the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.

    8For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, in front of the temple were one hundred cubits.

    9And from under these chambers was the entrance on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

    10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separate area, and opposite the building.

    11And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as wide as they: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

    12And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.

    13Then he said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate area, are holy chambers, where the priests who approach to the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

    14When the priests enter there, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to those things which are for the people.

    15Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out toward the gate that faced east, and measured it all around.

  • Ezek 42:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1Then he brought me out to the outer court, by way of the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was opposite the separate area, which was before the building toward the north.

    2In front of the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.

    3Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

    4And before the chambers there was a walk of ten cubits wide inward, a pathway of one cubit; and their doors faced north.

    5Now the upper chambers were shorter: because the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middle of the building.

  • Ezek 40:24
    76%

    24After that he brought me toward the south, and there was a gateway facing south; and he measured its gateposts and its arches according to these same measurements.

  • Neh 13:5
    76%

    5and he had prepared for him a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil, which were commanded to be given to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers, as well as the offerings for the priests.

  • Ezek 45:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5And an area of twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27There was also a gateway on the inner court facing south, and he measured from gate to gate toward the south one hundred cubits.

    28Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate according to these same measurements.

  • Ezek 41:9-12
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    9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber outside, was five cubits: and the space that was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

    10And between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.

    11And the doors of the side chambers faced the space that was left, one door toward the north and another door toward the south: and the width of the space that was left was five cubits all around.

    12Now the building that faced the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

  • Ezek 44:14
    75%

    14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

  • Ezek 40:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35He brought me to the north gate and measured it according to these same measurements.

    36Also its gate chambers, its posts, and its arches; it had windows all around, its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 48:11
    74%

    11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, and did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

  • Ezek 40:10
    74%

    10In the eastern gateway were three gate chambers on one side and three on the other; the three were of the same size, and the posts had the same size on this side and that.

  • Ezek 40:17
    74%

    17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

  • Neh 12:45
    73%

    45Both the singers and the gatekeepers kept the charge of their God, and the charge of purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

  • Ezek 40:20-21
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    73%

    20On the outer court was also a gateway facing north, and he measured its length and its width.

    21Its gate chambers, three on this side and three on that side, its gateposts, and its arches had the same measurements as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 41:15
    73%

    15And he measured the length of the building opposite the separate place that was behind it, along with its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porches of the court;

  • Ezek 40:7
    73%

    7Each gate chamber was one reed long and one reed wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits, and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one reed.

  • Ezek 40:12
    73%

    12There was a barrier before the gate chambers, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.

  • 2 Chr 23:4
    73%

    4This is what you shall do: A third part of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the doors;

  • Ezek 41:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4So he measured its length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

    5After, he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

  • Ezek 44:1
    72%

    1Then he brought me back by way of the gate of the outer sanctuary, which faces east; and it was shut.

  • 1 Chr 9:26
    72%

    26For these Levites, the four chief gatekeepers, had been appointed over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

  • Ezek 40:38
    72%

    38There was a chamber and its doorway by the gateposts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
    72%

    11Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them,

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    72%

    17And the house, that is, the temple in front, was forty cubits long.

  • Ezek 40:32
    72%

    32He brought me into the inner court facing east; he measured the gateway according to these measurements.

  • Jer 35:4
    72%

    4And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the leaders, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: