Ezekiel 9:3

9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. ¹  He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

Ezekiel 9:6

9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Ezekiel 40:5

40:5 I saw ²  a wall all around the outside of the temple. ³  In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet ⁴  long. He measured the thickness of the wall ⁵  as 10½ feet, ⁶  and its height as 10½ feet.

Ezekiel 41:12

41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet ⁷  wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet ⁸  all around, and its length 157½ feet. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 41:15

41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. ¹⁰ 

The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 41:19

41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

Ezekiel 41:26

41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

Ezekiel 44:17

44:17 “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.

Ezekiel 45:5

45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ¹²  in length and three and one-third miles ¹³  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ¹⁴  in which they will live.

Ezekiel 45:20

45:20 This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.

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¹ tn Heb “house.”

² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

³ tn Heb “house.”

⁴ tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

⁵ tn Heb “building.”

⁶ tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).

⁷ tn Heb “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).

⁸ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

⁹ tn Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).

¹⁰ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

¹¹ tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”

¹² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

¹³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

¹⁴ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.