North Easton Gate Lodge

Ames Gate Lodge

I think that the gate lodge is the north gate to Solomon’s temple.

Ezekiel gives us the description of the north gate.

“Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits (13’-6” – I measured of 15’-9”)”

“And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits (17’ – I measured 16’-8”); and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits (22’ – I measured 24’)” - so technically only one side of the three have the same measure and the posts are not the same size.

The gate eastward "the length therof was fifty cubits (85' - I measured 78') and the breadth five and twenty cubits (42.5' - I measured 42'-11")

“and the little chambers were six cubits (10.2’ – I measured 10’-9”), and six cubits on that side”

“He made also posts of threescore cubits (102’ – the cylinder shape on the side has only a 34’ diameter but the circumference is 107’)

“And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts with the gate round about”

“And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north” – so we know the chambers for the singers was on the east side of the north gate

“And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house” – so the keepers (slash gardeners?) must have been on the west side.

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“Then he said unto me, the north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy”

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