Ezekiel 40:45

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He said to me,“This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 9:23 : 23 They and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the LORD’s sanctuary(that is, the tabernacle).
  • Lev 8:35 : 35 You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who serve in the LORD’s temple during the night.
  • Ezek 8:5 : 5 He said to me,“Son of man, look up toward the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
  • Mal 2:4-7 : 4 Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 5 “My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me. 6 He taught what was true; sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin. 7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 Conclusion O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called“knowledge.”
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father– to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.
  • Num 3:27-28 : 27 The Numbering of the Kohathites From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites. 28 Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:32 : 32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible for the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:38 : 38 But those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were responsible for the needs of the sanctuary and for the needs of the Israelites, but the unauthorized person who approached was to be put to death.
  • Num 18:5 : 5 You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his descendants offered sacrifices on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar for incense as they had been assigned to do in the most holy sanctuary. They made atonement for Israel, just as God’s servant Moses had ordered.
  • 2 Chr 13:11 : 11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the LORD every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly we are observing the LORD our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 40:46-47
    2 verses
    89%

    46and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the LORD to minister to him.”

    47He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.

  • Ezek 40:44
    86%

    44On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north.

  • Ezek 46:19
    81%

    19Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw a place at the extreme western end.

  • Ezek 42:7-15
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    7As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.

    8For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.

    9Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.

    10At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

    11with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. Of the same length and width, and all their exits according to their arrangements and entrances

    12were the chambers which were toward the south. There was an opening at the head of the passage, the passage in front of the corresponding wall toward the east when one enters.

    13Then he said to me,“The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings– the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.

    14When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

    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.

  • Ezek 42:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

    2Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.

    3Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.

    4In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, and their entrances were on the north.

    5Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

  • Ezek 40:24
    76%

    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.

  • Neh 13:5
    76%

    5He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

  • Ezek 45:4-5
    2 verses
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    4It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the LORD to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    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 41:9-12
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    9The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple

    10and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.

    11There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around.

    12The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet thick all around, and its length 157½ feet.

  • Ezek 44:14
    75%

    14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

  • Ezek 40:35-36
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    35Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others–

    36its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.

  • Ezek 48:11
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    11This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.

  • Ezek 40:10
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    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.

  • Ezek 40:17
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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.

  • Neh 12:45
    73%

    45They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and his son Solomon.

  • Ezek 40:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

    21Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.

  • Ezek 41:15
    73%

    15Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,

  • Ezek 40:7
    73%

    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.

  • Ezek 40:12
    73%

    12There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.

  • 2 Chr 23:4
    73%

    4This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.

  • Ezek 41:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me,“This is the most holy place.”

    5Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

  • Ezek 44:1
    72%

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

  • 1 Chr 9:26
    72%

    26The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary.

  • Ezek 40:38
    72%

    38There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
    72%

    11Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the LORD’s temple. When this was done,

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    72%

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

  • Ezek 40:32
    72%

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

  • Jer 35:4
    72%

    4I took them to the LORD’s temple. I took them into the room where the disciples of the prophet Hanan son of Igdaliah stayed. That room was next to the one where the temple officers stayed and above the room where Maaseiah son of Shallum, one of the doorkeepers of the temple, stayed.