Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁵  six men ⁶  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁷  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁸  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ⁹  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ¹⁰  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Ezekiel 40:48

40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet ¹¹  on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet ¹²  and the sides ¹³  were 5¼ feet ¹⁴  on each side.

Ezekiel 45:19

45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

Ezekiel 46:1

The Prince’s Offerings

46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east ¹⁵  will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

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¹ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

² tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Or “image.”

⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁶ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

⁷ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

⁸ tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

⁹ tn Heb “lifted.”

¹⁰ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

¹¹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

¹² tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

¹³ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

tn Or “sidewalls.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

¹⁵ sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).