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pursuit of pleasure, since a life without self-denial soon becomes out of control in every area. Like
fattened cattle ready to be slaughtered,the rich that James condemns had indulged themselves to
the limit.
“You have condemned…murdered the just”(v.6).This describes the next step in the sinful pro-
gression of the rich.Hoarding led to fraud,which led to self-indulgence.Finally,that overindulgence
has consumed the rich to the point that they will do anything to sustain their lifestyle.
“Condemned” comes from a word meaning “to sentence.” The implication is that the rich were
using the courts to commit judicial murder (2:6).

width of the terrace was five cubits all around.
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November 25 courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits
The building that faced the separating
wide; the wall of the building was five cubits
thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Ezekiel 41:1–42:20
So he measured the temple, one hundred
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Then he brought me into the sanctuary cubits long; and the separating courtyard with
41 and measured the doorposts, six cubits the building and its walls was one hundred
wide on one side and six cubits wide on the cubits long; also the width of the eastern face
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other side—the width of the tabernacle. The of the temple, including the separating court-
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width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the yard, was one hundred cubits. He measured
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side walls of the entrance were five cubits on the length of the building behind it, facing the
this side and five cubits on the other side; and separating courtyard, with its galleries on the
he measured its length, forty cubits, and its one side and on the other side, one hundred
width, twenty cubits. cubits, as well as the inner temple and the
Also he went inside and measured the porches of the court, their doorposts and the
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doorposts, two cubits; and the entrance, six beveled window frames. And the galleries all
cubits high; and the width of the entrance, around their three stories opposite the thresh-
seven cubits. He measured the length, twenty old were paneled with wood from the ground to
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cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the windows—the windows were covered—
the sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the 17 from the space above the door, even to the
Most Holy Place.” inner room, as well as outside, and on every
Next, he measured the wall of the temple, wall all around, inside and outside, by measure.
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six cubits. The width of each side chamber all 18 And it was made with cherubim and palm
around the temple was four cubits on every trees, a palm tree between cherub and
side. The side chambers were in three stories, cherub. Each cherub had two faces, so that
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one above the other, thirty chambers in each the face of a man was toward a palm tree on
story; they rested on ledges which were for one side, and the face of a young lion toward a
the side chambers all around, that they might palm tree on the other side; thus it was made
be supported, but not fastened to the wall of throughout the temple all around. From the
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the temple. As one went up from story to floor to the space above the door, and on the
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story, the side chambers became wider all wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm
around, because their supporting ledges in trees were carved.
the wall of the temple ascended like steps; 21 The doorposts of the temple were square,
therefore the width of the structure increased as was the front of the sanctuary; their appear-
as one went up from the lowest story to the ance was similar. The altar was of wood,
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highest by way of the middle one. I also saw three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its
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an elevation all around the temple; it was the corners, its length, and its sides were of wood;
foundation of the side chambers, a full rod, and he said to me, “This is the table that is be-
that is, six cubits high. The thickness of the fore the LORD.”
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outer wall of the side chambers was five 23 The temple and the sanctuary had two
cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by doors. The doors had two panels apiece, two
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the place of the side chambers of the temple. folding panels: two panels for one door and
And between it and the wall chambers was a two panels for the other door. Cherubim and
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width of twenty cubits all around the temple on palm trees were carved on the doors of the
every side. The doors of the side chambers temple just as they were carved on the walls. A
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opened on the terrace, one door toward the wooden canopy was on the front of the
north and another toward the south; and the vestibule outside. There were beveled window
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