Quotes about North

And you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.

I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.

He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.

There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.

Then he brought me to the north gate and measured it. It had the same measurements as the others,

Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.

Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two chambers, one beside the north gate and facing south, and another beside the south gate and facing north.

and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”

The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.

The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.