[Sidenote:  Ezek. 37:24-28] ’"And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd:  they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to my servant Jacob, wherein their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they and their sons, forever.  And David my servant shall be their prince forever.  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish them, and multiply them, and set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.  My dwelling place also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore."’

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:1-4] In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that very day, the hand of Jehovah was laid upon me, and he brought me in an inspired vision to the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high mountain, on which was a city-like building toward the south.  Thither he brought me, and there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a flaxen line and a measuring reed in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.  And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and give heed to all that I shall show thee; for, in order that thou shouldst be shown it wert thou brought hither; declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:5] There was a wall encircling a temple, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, each cubit being equal to about twenty-one inches.  And he measured the thickness of the building one reed (about ten and one-half feet); and the height one reed.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:6-12] Then he came to the east gateway and went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate one reed wide.  And each guard-room was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the guard-rooms were spaces of five cubits; and the threshold of the gate at the vestibule of the gate on the inner side was one reed.  Then he measured the vestibule of the gate, eight cubits, and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was on the inner side.  And the guard-rooms of the east gate were three on each side; and all three were of the same dimensions; and the posts were on both sides.  And he measured the breadth of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the width of the gate, thirteen cubits; and there was a sill one cubit wide, before the guard-rooms on each side; and the guard-rooms, six cubits on both sides.

[Sidenote:  Ezek. 40:13, 15] And he measured the gate from the outer wall of the one guard-room to the outer wall of the other, twenty-five cubits wide [about forty-four feet]; door opposite door.  And from the front of the gateway at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate were fifty cubits.