◄ Ezekiel 40:26 ►
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Good News Translation
Seven steps led up to it, and its entrance room was also at the end facing the courtyard. There were palm trees carved on the inner walls that faced the passageway.

New Revised Standard Version
There were seven steps leading up to it; its vestibule was on the inside. It had palm trees on its pilasters, one on either side.

Contemporary English Version
Seven steps led up to the gate; the entrance room was at the far end of the passageway and faced the courtyard of the temple. Carvings of palm trees decorated the walls along the passageway.

New American Bible
Seven steps led up to it, its vestibule faced inside; and palms decorated each of the posts opposite one another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before the doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side in the front thereof.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before the doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side in the front thereof.

seven

Ezekiel 40:6,22,29 And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and he went up the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed broad; . . .

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, Amen.

palm trees

Ezekiel 40:16,22 And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees. . . .

Psalm 92:12 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

Songs 7:7,8 Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. . . .

Context
The South Gate
…25And the windows thereof, and the porches round about, as the other windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26And there were seven steps to go up to it: and a porch before the doors thereof: and there were graven palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side in the front thereof.27And there was a gate of the inner court towards the south: and he measured from gate to gate towards the south, a hundred cubits.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 40:6
And he came to the gate that looked toward the east, and he went up the steps thereof: and he measured the breadth of the threshold of the gate one reed, that is, one threshold was one reed broad;

Ezekiel 40:16
And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees.

Ezekiel 40:22
And the windows thereof, and the porch, and the gravings according to the measure of the gate that looked to the east, and they went up to it by seven steps, and a porch was before it.

Ezekiel 40:31
And the porch thereof to the outward court, and the palm trees thereof in the front: and there were eight steps to go up to it.

Ezekiel 40:25
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