And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

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In the two courts(A) of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

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12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.

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12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses(A) of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.

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12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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12 He pulled down(A) the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof(B) near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts(C) of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.(D)

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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

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The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers(A) to remove(B) from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

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36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

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36 And he built the inner courtyard(A) of three courses(B) of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams.

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19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

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19 When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that the people are not consecrated(A) through contact with their garments.(B)

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So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

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Then the Spirit(A) lifted me up(B) and brought me into the inner court, and the glory(C) of the Lord filled the temple.(D)

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Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

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Both in the section twenty cubits[a] from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery(A) faced gallery at the three levels.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 42:3 That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters

47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

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47 Then he measured the court: It was square—a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.(A)

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37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

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37 Its portico[a](A) faced the outer court; palm trees decorated the jambs on either side, and eight steps led up to it.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 40:37 Septuagint (see also verses 31 and 34); Hebrew jambs

32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.

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32 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements(A) as the others.

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28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

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The Gates to the Inner Court

28 Then he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements(A) as the others.

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15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

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15 He got rid of the foreign gods and removed(A) the image from the temple of the Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.

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