Ezekiel 40:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 42:20 : 20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.
  • Isa 26:1 : 1 Judah Will Celebrate At that time this song will be sung in the land of Judah:“We have a strong city! The LORD’s deliverance, like walls and a rampart, makes it secure.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls,‘Deliverance,’ and your gates,‘Praise.’
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites.(It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)
  • Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forevermore.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 But I(the LORD says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”
  • Rev 21:12 : 12 It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 40:6-13
    8 verses
    85%

    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.

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

    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.

  • Ezek 41:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    1The Inner Temple Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side.

    2The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet.

    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.

    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 40:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    3When 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.

    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.”

  • Ezek 41:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

    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.

  • Ezek 42:15-20
    6 verses
    81%

    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.

    17He measured the north side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

    18He measured the south side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

    19He turned to the west side and measured 875 feet by the measuring stick.

    20He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

  • Ezek 40:47-49
    3 verses
    81%

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

    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.

    49The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

  • Ezek 41:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    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.

    13Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

    14and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.

    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,

  • Rev 21:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

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

    16Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles(its length and width and height are equal).

    17He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.

  • Ezek 40:35-36
    2 verses
    79%

    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 40:32
    77%

    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 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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.”

  • Ezek 41:17
    76%

    17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    76%

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

  • Rev 11:1
    76%

    1The 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.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    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 40:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    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 40:23
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:6
    74%

    6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

  • Zech 5:2
    74%

    2Someone asked me,“What do you see?” I replied,“I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”