Ezekiel - 40:24



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

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After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the gate that looked to the south : and he measured the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the former measures.
And he brought me toward the south: and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its posts and its projections according to these measures.
And he led me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures.
And he causeth me to go southward, and lo, a gate southward, and he hath measured its posts and its arches according to these measures;
And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.
And he led me to the way of the south, and behold, there was a gate which looked toward the south. And he measured its front and its vestibule to be the same as the measures above.

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According to these measures - The same measures that had been used at the eastern court.

After that he brought me toward the south,.... Having taken the dimensions of the east and north gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the building:
and behold a gate toward the south; that led to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward court there, exactly like the other two; there was no difference in them, which raised the prophet's wonder and attention; for, as Lipman (k) says, there was no outward court in the second temple, but to the east of the inward; and it did not encompass the other sides; and so the more wonderful:
and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according, to these measures; the measures of the east and north gates, which were just alike; for these all signified but one gateway or door into the church below, into heaven above, or into the presence of God here and hereafter, which is Christ, John 14:6.
(k) Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 17.

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