John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 40:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits, &c.] This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipmanf692; since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over: and the posts thereof two cubits; these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in (<264011>Ezekiel 40:11) what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on (<264014>Ezekiel 40:14,16): and the porch of the gate was inward; this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.

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