New American Standard Bible (©1995) Its guardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995) Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance halls were the same size as those of the other gateways. Its guardrooms and entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was 871/2 feet long and 44 feet wide. King James Bible And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. Jump to Previous Occurrence Alcoves Arches Breadth Broad Cells Chambers Cubits Fifty Five Gateway Guardrooms Jambs Lodges Measurements Measures Openings Pillars Porches Portico Posts Projecting Rooms Round Side Size Therein Thereof Twenty Twenty-Five Vestibule Walls Wide Windows Jump to Next Occurrence Alcoves Arches Breadth Broad Cells Chambers Cubits Fifty Five Gateway Guardrooms Jambs Lodges Measurements Measures Openings Pillars Porches Portico Posts Projecting Rooms Round Side Size Therein Thereof Twenty Twenty-Five Vestibule Walls Wide Windows Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary Verses 27-38 In these verses we have a delineation of the inner court. The survey of the outer court ended with the south side of it. This of the inner court begins with the south side (v. 27), proceeds to the east (v. 32), and so to the north (v. 35); for here is no gate either of the outer or inner court towards the west. It should seem that in Solomon's temple there were gates westward, for we find porters towards the west, 1 Chr. 9:24; 26:8. But Josephus says that in the second temple there was no gate on the west side. Observe, 1. These gates into the inner court were exactly uniform with those into the outer court, the dimensions the same, the chambers adjoining the same, the galleries or rows round the court the same, and the very engravings on the posts the same. The work of grace, and its workings, are the same, for substance, in grown Christians that they are in young beginners, only that the former have got so much nearer their perfection. The faith of all the saints is alike precious, though it be not alike strong. There is a great resemblance between one child of God and another; for all they are brethren and bear the same image. 2. The ascent into the outer court at each gate was by seven steps, but the ascent into the inner court at each gate was by eight steps. This is expressly taken notice of (v. 31, 34, 37), to signify that the nearer we approach to God the more we should rise above this world and the things of it. The people, who worshipped in the outer court, must rise seven steps above other people, but the priests, who attended in the inner court, must rise eight steps above them, must exceed them at least one step more than they exceed other people. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Alphabetical: according alcoves all also and around as cubits fifty gate gateway guardrooms had It Its long measurements openings others pillars porches portico projecting same side the those to twenty-five walls was were wide windows Bible Browser |