Ezekiel 40:5

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

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  • Ezek 42:20 : 20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
  • Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)
  • Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
  • Rev 21:12 : 12 having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

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  • Ezek 40:6-13
    8 verses
    85%

    6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

    7 Every 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.

    8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.

    9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

    10 The 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.

    11 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;

    12 and 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.

    13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

  • Ezek 41:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.

    2 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

    3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

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

    5 Then 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 40:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.

    3 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

    4 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 41:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

    9 The 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.

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

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    15 Now 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.

    16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.

    17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.

    18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

    19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

    20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall around it, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

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

    48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

    49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

  • 79%

    12 The 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.

    13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

    14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

    15 He 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;

  • Rev 21:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

    16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

    17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

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    35 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;

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

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

  • Zech 2:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

    2 Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

  • 17 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

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

  • 1 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

  • 76%

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

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

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    19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.

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

  • 23 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.

  • 6 The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  • 2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."