Ezekiel 42:2
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
Note The building was approximately 175 feet long and 87.5 feet wide (53.3 meters long and 26.7 meters wide).
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Facing the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the width was fifty cubits.
Note A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Before
- Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters.
- Ezekiel 42:2