Ezekiel 40:49
The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.
Note 20 (long) cubits is approximately 35 feet or 10.7 meters.
Note LXX; 12 (long) cubits is approximately 21 feet or 6.4 meters; Hebrew eleven cubits deep; that is, approximately 19.25 feet or 5.9 meters.
Note LXX; Hebrew and steps led up to it
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits, even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- The steps
- This was a flight of steps which led from the inner court into the temple.
- Ezekiel 40:31, 34, 37
- pillars
- 1 Kings 7:15–21; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Jeremiah 52:17–23; Revelation 3:12