# Ezekiel 40 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Ezekiel Overview]] | [[Ezekiel 39]] | [[Ezekiel 41]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Vision of the New Temple [[#Verse 01.]] In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there.  [[#Verse 02.]] By divine visions he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.  [[#Verse 03.]] When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.  [[#Verse 04.]] The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.” [[#Verse 05.]] I saw a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall as 10½ feet, and its height as 10½ feet.  [[#Verse 06.]] Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep.  [[#Verse 07.]] The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.  [[#Verse 08.]] Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.  [[#Verse 09.]] He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.  [[#Verse 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.  [[#Verse 11.]] He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.  [[#Verse 12.]] There was a barrier in front of the alcoves, 1¾ feet on either side; the alcoves were 10½ feet on either side.  [[#Verse 13.]] He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet from one entrance to the opposite one.  [[#Verse 14.]] He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.  [[#Verse 15.]] From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. [[#Verse 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. [[#Verse 17.]] Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw chambers there and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.  [[#Verse 18.]] The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.  [[#Verse 19.]] Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north. [[#Verse 20.]] He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court that faces north.  [[#Verse 21.]] Its alcoves, three on each side, and its jambs and porches had the same measurement as the first gate; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.  [[#Verse 22.]] Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate that faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.  [[#Verse 23.]] Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet. [[#Verse 24.]] Then he led me toward the south. I saw a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.  [[#Verse 25.]] There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; 87½ feet long and 43¾ feet wide.  [[#Verse 26.]] There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.  [[#Verse 27.]] The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet. [[#Verse 28.]] Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.  [[#Verse 29.]] Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.  [[#Verse 30.]] There were porches all around, 43¾ feet long and 8¾ feet wide.  [[#Verse 31.]] Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps. [[#Verse 32.]] Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.  [[#Verse 33.]] Its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches had the same dimensions as the others, and there were windows all around it and its porches; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.  [[#Verse 34.]] Its porches faced the outer court, it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps. [[#Verse 35.]] Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others—  [[#Verse 36.]] its alcoves, its jambs, and its porches. It had windows all around it; its length was 87½ feet and its width 43¾ feet.  [[#Verse 37.]] Its jambs faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs on either side, and its stairway had eight steps. [[#Verse 38.]] There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; there they washed the burnt offering.  [[#Verse 39.]] In the porch of the gate were two tables on either side on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering.  [[#Verse 40.]] On the outside of the porch as one goes up at the entrance of the north gate were two tables, and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables.  [[#Verse 41.]] Four tables were on each side of the gate, eight tables on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.  [[#Verse 42.]] The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches long, 32 inches wide, and 21 inches high. They would put the instruments that they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.  [[#Verse 43.]] There were hooks three inches long fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. [[#Verse 44.]] On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north.  [[#Verse 45.]] He said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,  [[#Verse 46.]] and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.” [[#Verse 47.]] He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple. [[#Verse 48.]] Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet on either side; the width of the gate was 24½ feet, and the sides were 5¼ feet on each side.  [[#Verse 49.]] The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." 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