1 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. |
2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. |
3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. |
4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. |
5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. |
6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. |
7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. |
8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. |
9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. |
10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. |
11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. |
12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. |
13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; |
14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. |
15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; |
16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; |
17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. |
18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; |
19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. |
20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. |
21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. |
22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. |
23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. |
24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. |
25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. |
26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. |
41 The dimensions of the house and various parts of it, Eze 41:1-13.
An account of another building, Eze 41:14-15.
The manner of the building of the house, Eze 41:16-17.
The ornaments of the house, Eze 41:18-20.
The altar of incense and the table, Eze 41:21-22.
The doors between the temple and the oracle, Eze 41:23-26.
41:1 The breadth - These walls in their thickness took up as much space as the whole breadth of Moses's tabernacle, Exo 26:16, Exo 26:22.
41:3 Went he - From the porch thro' the body of the temple, to the partition between the body of the temple and the holy of holies.Measured - Either the thickness of that partition wall, or of the pilasters, which stood one on the one side, and the other on the other side of the door. Of the door - Or entrance out of the temple into the oracle. And the door - This door was six cubits broad, and an upright bar or post on which the leaves met, and which was of one cubit's breadth, make out seven cubits.
41:4 Thereof - Of the holy of holies, which was an exact square.Before - Parallel with the breadth of the temple.
41:5 After - Having left the holy of holies, now he is come to take the measures of the outer wall. The house - The temple. Six cubits - Three yards thick was this wall from the ground to the first story of the side - chambers. Side - chamber - Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differed in their breadth, as the wall of the temple, on which they rested, abated of its thickness; for the middle chambers were broader than the lowest by a cubit, and the highest as much broader than the middle. Round about - On the north, south, and west parts, on each side of every one of these three gates.
41:6 They might - That the beams of the chambers might have good and firm resting - hold. Had not hold - The ends of the beams were not thrust into the main body of the wall of the temple.
41:7 An enlarging - Of the side chambers, so much of breadth added to the chamber, as was taken from the thickness of the wall; that is, two cubits in the uppermost, and one cubit in the middle - most, more than in the lowest chambers. A winding about - Winding stairs, which enlarged as the rooms did, and these run up between each two chambers from the bottom to the top; so there were two doors at the head of each pair of stairs, one door opening into one chamber, and the other into the opposite chamber.For the winding about - These stairs, as they rose in height, enlarged themselves too. Round about - On all sides of the house where these chambers were. The breadth - Of each chamber. Increased - Grew broader by one cubit in every upper chamber. From five in the lowest to six in the middle, and to seven in the highest chamber.
41:8 The foundations - The lowest chamber had properly a foundation laid on the earth, but the floor of the middle, and highest story must be accounted here a foundation; so from the ground to the ceiling of the first room, was six great cubits; from the first to the second, six great cubits; and from the third floor to the roof of the chamber, a like number; to which add we one cubit for thickness of each of the three floors, you have twenty - one cubits for height, ten yards and a half high.
41:9 The place - The walk and wall.
41:11 The doors - The doors of the lowest row opened into this void paved space.
41:12 The building - This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself.
41:13 The house - The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary and porch, with the walls. The building - On both the north and south - side of the temple.
41:14 The breadth - The whole front of the house eastward.
41:18 Cherubim - Generally taken for the portrait of angels, or young men with wings: yet is the description of them very different in different places; in Ezekiel's vision, Eze 1:5-14 Eze 10:14, Isaiah's vision, Isa 6:2, John's vision, Rev 4:6-8, and in Solomon's temple, Ki1 6:23-26.
41:19 Through all the house - And thus it was through the whole house round about.
41:21 The face - The door or gate of the temple was square, not arched.As the appearance - As was the form of the gate of the temple in its larger, so was the form of the gate of the oracle in its lesser dimensions.
41:22 The altar - Of incense. The corners - The horns framed out of the four posts at each angle on the top of the altar. The walls - The sides. Before the Lord - In the temple, not in the holy of holies.
41:23 Two doors - Each had one.
41:25 Them - The doors of both temple and oracle.The temple - Including the holy of holies also.
42 A description of the chambers that were about the courts, Eze 42:1-12.
The uses of them, Eze 42:13-14.
The whole compass of ground, which was taken up by the house and courts, Eze 42:15-20.
42:2 The length - The temple of one hundred cubits long, and of fifty broad, was on the south prospect of these chambers.
42:3 Against gallery - That is, a gallery on the south part toward the inner court, and a gallery toward the pavement north - ward, and between the backs of these galleries were chambers.
42:4 A way - Before the galleries probably, was a ledge of one cubit broad, running the whole length from east to west, called here a way, though not designed for any to walk on it.
42:5 Shorter - At first view it should seem to refer to the length, but indeed it refers to the height of the chambers, of which the lowest chamber was highest, the second lower pitched than the first, yet of greater height than the uppermost between the floor and ceiling.
42:6 As the pillars - So thick and strong as those were.
42:7 The wall - A wall at a distance from them, perhaps some wall that might keep up a terrace - walk.
42:11 The way - The walk. Was like - Exactly uniform with the fabrick on the north - side. All their goings - Every window and door.Were - Framed in the same manner. In all things exactly alike.
42:13 Shall they lay - In some of these chambers the holy things that might be eat, were laid up as in a store - house; and those which were not for present use, were reserved, 'till they were to be used.
42:14 Which are - Which common people may meddle with.
42:20 Five hundred broad - Each reed was above three yards and an half, so that it was about eight miles round. Thus large were the suburbs of this mystical temple, signifying the great extent of the church in gospel times. It is in part fulfilled already, by the accession of the Gentiles to the church: and will be throughly accomplished, when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, and all Israel shall be saved.A separation - To distinguish, and accordingly to exclude, or admit persons, for all might not go in.