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Court

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: C By: James P. Boyd

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(enclosure). The enclosed space within the limits of Oriental houses. The outer area of the tabernacle and temple (Ex. 27:9⁹And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: (Exodus 27:9); Lev. 6:16¹⁶And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. (Leviticus 6:16); 2 Sam. 17:18¹⁸Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. (2 Samuel 17:18); 1 Kings 6:36³⁶And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. (1 Kings 6:36); 2 Kings 23:12¹²And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. (2 Kings 23:12); 2 Chron. 33:5⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 33:5)).

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