Ezekiel 40:3

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When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

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  • Ezek 47:3 : 3 When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.
  • Rev 11:1 : 1 The Fate of the Two Witnesses Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told,“Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.
  • Rev 1:15 : 15 His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
  • Ezek 1:7 : 7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed like polished bronze.
  • Zech 2:1-2 : 1 Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 I asked,“Where are you going?” He replied,“To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”
  • Rev 21:15 : 15 The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.
  • Dan 10:5-6 : 5 I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen; around his waist was a belt made of gold from Ufaz. 6 His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.
  • Ezek 1:27 : 27 I saw an amber glow like a fire enclosed all around from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Then you must recall the LORD’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.
  • Isa 28:17 : 17 I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

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  • Ezek 40:1-2
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    1Vision of the New Temple In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there.

    2By means of divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.

  • Ezek 40:4-11
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    4The man said to me,“Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

    5I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.

    6Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.

    7The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.

    8Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

    9He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

    10There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement.

    11He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.

  • Ezek 40:32
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    32Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

  • Zech 2:1-3
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    1Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

    2I asked,“Where are you going?” He replied,“To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”

    3At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

  • Ezek 40:35
    79%

    35Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others–

  • Ezek 40:27-28
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    27The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet.

    28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

  • Ezek 40:23-24
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    23Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet.

    24Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

  • Ezek 40:48-49
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    48Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side.

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  • Rev 21:15
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    15The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

  • Ezek 43:1
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    1The Glory Returns to the Temple Then he brought me to the gate that faced toward the east.

  • Ezek 42:15-16
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    15Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple, he led me out by the gate which faces east and measured all around.

    16He measured the east side with the measuring stick as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

  • Ezek 47:3
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    3When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

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  • Ezek 40:17-20
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    17Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

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    19Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.

    20He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

  • Ezek 8:4
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    4Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

  • Dan 10:5
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    5I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen; around his waist was a belt made of gold from Ufaz.

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    6He said to me,“Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

  • Ezek 8:7-8
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    7He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

    8He said to me,“Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

  • Ezek 43:6
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    6I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

  • Ezek 42:1
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    1Chambers for the Temple Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.

  • Ezek 41:3
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    3Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet.

  • Ezek 8:2
    73%

    2As I watched, I noticed a form that appeared to be a man. From his waist downward was something like fire, and from his waist upward something like a brightness, like an amber glow.

  • Ezek 44:1
    73%

    1The Closed Gate Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

  • Zech 5:6
    72%

    6I asked,“What is it?” And he replied,“It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said,“This is their‘eye’ throughout all the earth.”

  • Ezek 43:3
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    3It was like the vision I saw when he came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

  • Rev 21:17
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    7He showed me this: I saw the Lord standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand.

  • Ezek 9:2
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    2Next, I noticed six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

  • Ezek 40:13
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    13He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.

  • Zech 4:1
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  • Ezek 44:4
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    4Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed the glory of the LORD filling the LORD’s temple, and I threw myself face down.