Ezekiel 40:45

World English Bible (2000)

He said to me, This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;

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  • 1 Chr 9:23 : 23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
  • Lev 8:35 : 35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."
  • Ps 134:1 : 1 Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
  • Ezek 8:5 : 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
  • Mal 2:4-7 : 4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies. 5 "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, 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 Yahweh of Armies.
  • 1 Tim 6:20 : 20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Num 3:27-28 : 27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. 28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:32 : 32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.
  • Num 3:38 : 38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  • Num 18:5 : 5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
  • 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, 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 Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 40:46-47
    2 verses
    89%

    46and the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.

    47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.

  • Ezek 40:44
    86%

    44Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

  • Ezek 46:19
    81%

    19Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy rooms for the priests, which looked toward the north: and behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.

  • Ezek 42:7-15
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    80%

    7The wall that was outside by the side of the rooms, toward the outer court before the rooms, its length was fifty cubits.

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

    9From under these rooms was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.

    10In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were rooms.

    11The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the rooms which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

    12According to the doors of the rooms 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 rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

    14When the priests enter in, then shall they 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 they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.

    15Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it all around.

  • Ezek 42:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the room that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.

    2Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

    3Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

    4Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

    5Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

  • Ezek 40:24
    76%

    24He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.

  • Neh 13:5
    76%

    5had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.

  • Ezek 45:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

    5Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms.

  • Ezek 40:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.

    28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

  • Ezek 41:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

    10Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

    11The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

    12The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

  • Ezek 44:14
    75%

    14Yet will I make them performers of the duty 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 he measured [it] according to these measures;

    36its lodges, its posts, and its arches: and there were windows therein all around; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 48:11
    74%

    11[It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

  • Ezek 40:10
    74%

    10The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

  • Ezek 40:17
    74%

    17Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were rooms and a pavement, made for the court all around: thirty rooms were on the pavement.

  • Neh 12:45
    73%

    45They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and [so did] the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

  • Ezek 40:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.

    21The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its arches were after the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

  • Ezek 41:15
    73%

    15He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

  • Ezek 40:7
    73%

    7Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.

  • Ezek 40:12
    73%

    12and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

  • 2 Chr 23:4
    73%

    4This is the thing that you shall do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds.

  • Ezek 41:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

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

    5Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

  • Ezek 44:1
    72%

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

  • 1 Chr 9:26
    72%

    26for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in the house of God.

  • Ezek 40:38
    72%

    38A room with its door was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
    72%

    11Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    72%

    17The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

  • Ezek 40:32
    72%

    32He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

  • Jer 35:4
    72%

    4and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.