The Outer Court

 

Ezekiel 40:17-23

 

February 7, 2024

 

The Outer Court

Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.  And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.  Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.

What detail, it is believed the timeline for chapter 40 is 573 BC and King Solomon began the building of the temple in 966 BC and completed it in 959 BC. The Second Temple was in 538 BC was the one that Herod built.  

The North Gate

As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.  Its side rooms, three on either side and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them.  And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

Our Father is such a detailed God, He let Ezekiel see this and tell the people long before they were allowed to return to Jerusalem.

 

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice