'Court' in the Bible
He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.
Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord's house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord's temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord's temple, facing east -- they were worshiping the sun toward the east!
(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)
Then the glory of the Lord arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory.
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God when he speaks.
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.
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.
He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.
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.
The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet.
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.
Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.
Its porches faced the outer court, it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.
Its jambs faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.
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.
He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; the altar was in front of the temple.
and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.
Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court,
Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.
Opposite the 35 feet that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.
As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87? feet long.
For the chambers on the outer court were 87? feet long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet long.
Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.
At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers
When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are."
Then a wind lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched the glory of the Lord filling the temple.
"'When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.
When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
No priest may drink wine when he enters the inner court.
On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.
The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.
He said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people."
Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed that in every corner of the court there was a court.
In the four corners of the court were small courts, 70 feet in length and 52? feet in width; the four were all the same size.