Discovery BoxEzekiel 40:6-16 
Context40:6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep. 1 40:7 The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. 2 The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet. 40:8 Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet. 40:9 He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, 3 and its jambs as 3½ feet; 4 the porch of the gate faced inward. 40:10 There were three alcoves on each side of the east gate; the three had the same measurement, and the jambs on either side had the same measurement. 5 40:11 He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, 6 and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet. 7 40:12 There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet 8 on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet 9 on either side. 40:13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet 10 from one entrance to the opposite one. 40:14 He measured 11 the porch 12 at 105 feet 13 high; 14 the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard. 40:15 From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. 15 40:16 There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. 16
1 tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.
2 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters) according to the “long” cubit. See the note on the first occurrence of the phrase “10½ feet” in v. 5.
3 tn Heb “eight cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).
4 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
5 sn The three alcoves are parallel to the city gates found at Megiddo, Hazor, and Gezer.
6 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
7 tn Heb “thirteen cubits” (i.e., 6.825 meters).
8 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
9 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
10 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
11 tn Heb “made.”
12 tc The MT reads “jambs” which does not make sense in context. Supposing a confusion of yod for vav, the text may be emended to read “porch.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:518.
13 tn Heb “sixty cubits” (i.e., 31.5 meters).
14 tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for sense.
15 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
16 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).
