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Text -- Ezekiel 40:11 (NET)

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40:11 He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet.
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Barnes , Poole , Haydock , Gill

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Eze 40:11 - -- It is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, to which they ascended by stairs of a semicircular form.

It is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, to which they ascended by stairs of a semicircular form.

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Eze 40:6-16 - -- The east gate-building. See Plan III. Eze 40:6 Stairs - Seven in number Eze 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ...

The east gate-building. See Plan III.

Eze 40:6

Stairs - Seven in number Eze 40:22. Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken from East to west, i. e., in depth.

Eze 40:7

Every little chamber - The guard-chambers (a) for the use of the Levites who kept watch in the temple.

The threshold of the gate by the porch - The second threshold in the easternmost gate-way ©.

Porch - Hebrew אולם 'ûlâm ; the Septuagint: αἰλάμ ailam ; Vulgate: vestibulum . The word probably means porch or portico, connected with "ail"post or pillar.

Eze 40:9

The porch is now measured from north to south in "wide.""The breadth of the entry of the gate"was "ten cubits,"made up of the "eight cubits,"with "a cubit"for "a post"or pillar on each side Eze 40:11.

Posts - A projection like a ram’ s horn; in architecture, a column projecting from the wall with its base, shaft, and capital, or it may be the "base"only Eze 40:16, Eze 40:49. Here "post"represents the lower part of the column. and the dimensions given are those of the section of the base.

Eze 40:10

In front of each guard-chamber were columns, whose "posts"(bases) were each one cubit square.

Eze 40:11

The length of the gate - The length of the gateway (including the porch, E.) from the court to the uncovered space. The threshold was "six cubits,"and the porch "six."In addition one cubit was probably allowed in front of the porch, as before the porch of the temple itself Eze 40:49.

Eze 40:13

This measurement is across the gate-building from north to south. The breadth of the gate-building was exactly half its length Eze 40:15.

Eze 40:14

Posts of threescore cubits - Sixty cubits were the length of a series of columns. This gives us another feature of the gate-building. Between the porch (E) and the two most western guard-chambers was a space of five cubits (through which the road passed), forming a kind of hall with columns along the sides. This hall is called the "arches"Eze 40:16. A hall of the same dimensions was between the boundary wall and eastern guard-chambers Eze 40:31. It is probable that in one of these halls (that of the eastern gateway of the inner court) the prince "ate bread"on solemn festivals Eze 44:3.

Unto the post of the court round about the gate - This hall or colonnade extended the whole breadth of the building to the pavement (Eze 40:18, H, Plan II). Outside the building on the pavement was a series of pillars.

Eze 40:15

The whole length of the gate-building was thus made up:

6 cubits
Hall of the entrance 5 cubits
Three guard-chambers (6 cubits) 18 cubits
Spaces between guard-chambers 10 cubits
Hall of the porch 5 cubits
The porch 6 cubits
Total 50 cubits
Eze 40:16

The "narrow"(closed and (?)latticed "windows"lit up both the guard-chambers and the hall. On the square base of the "post"stood the shaft in the form of a palm-tree, as we see in ancient buildings in the east.

Poole: Eze 40:11 - -- The breadth of the entry: it is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, which was so wide, and to which they ascended by s...

The breadth of the entry: it is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, which was so wide, and to which they ascended by stairs of a semi-circular form.

The length the height is meant, but it is called its length, either because height is an erected length, or rather because thirteen cubits is the greater dimension; and this interpreters agree in, it is the height of the gate here measured.

Haydock: Eze 40:11 - -- Thirteen, or twenty-six feet high.

Thirteen, or twenty-six feet high.

Gill: Eze 40:11 - -- And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits,.... Five yards, two feet and a half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, wheth...

And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits,.... Five yards, two feet and a half: this was the measure of the eastern gate, whether outward or inward; for they were both of a measure, as appears from the thresholds being alike:

and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; that is, the height of it; it was seven yards and three inches high; a prodigious gate this! a fit emblem of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the open door, the gate of life, through which whoever enters shall be saved; and there is room for multitudes to enter.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 40:11 Heb “thirteen cubits” (i.e., 6.825 meters).

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eze 40:1-49 - --1 The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple.6 The description of the east gate of the outer court;20 of the north gate;24 of the ...

MHCC: Eze 40:1-49 - --Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult porti...

Matthew Henry: Eze 40:1-30 - -- We have here a very short and ready way taken for the dividing of the land among the twelve tribes, not so tedious and so far about as the way that ...

Matthew Henry: Eze 40:5-26 - -- The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Eze 40:3. Here we are told (Eze 40:5) what was the exact leng...

Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 40:6-16 - -- The Buildings of the East Gate (See Plate II 1). - Eze 40:6. And he went to the gate, the direction of which was toward the east, and ascended t...

Constable: Eze 33:1--48:35 - --IV. Future blessings for Israel chs. 33--48 "This last major division of the book focuses on the restoration of ...

Constable: Eze 40:1--48:35 - --C. Ezekiel's vision of the return of God's glory chs. 40-48 The Book of Ezekiel begins with a vision of ...

Constable: Eze 40:5--43:1 - --2. The millennial temple 40:5-42:20 Earlier Ezekiel hinted that there would be a future temple i...

Constable: Eze 40:6-16 - --The outer east gate complex 40:6-16 The amount of detail devoted to the descriptions of the gate complexes, both outer and inner, emphasizes that acce...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The name Ezekiel means "(whom) God will strengthen" [GESENIUS]; or, "God will prevail" [ROSENMULLER]. His father was Buzi (Eze 1:3), a priest, and he ...

JFB: Ezekiel (Outline) EZEKIEL'S VISION BY THE CHEBAR. FOUR CHERUBIM AND WHEELS. (Eze. 1:1-28) EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION. (Eze 2:1-10) EZEKIEL EATS THE ROLL. IS COMMISSIONED TO ...

TSK: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The character of Ezekiel, as a Writer and Poet, is thus admirably drawn by the masterly hand of Bishop Lowth: " Ezekiel is much inferior to Jeremiah ...

TSK: Ezekiel 40 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eze 40:1, The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple; Eze 40:6, The description of the east gate of the outer court; ...

Poole: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL THE ARGUMENT EZEKIEL was by descent a priest, and by commission a prophet, and received it from heaven, as will appea...

Poole: Ezekiel 40 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 40 Ezekiel’ s vision of the model of a city, and of an angel with a line and measuring reed taking the dimensions of the temple, Eze 4...

MHCC: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Ezekiel was one of the priests; he was carried captive to Chaldea with Jehoiachin. All his prophecies appear to have been delivered in that country, a...

MHCC: Ezekiel 40 (Chapter Introduction) The Vision of the Temple.

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the ...

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel 40 (Chapter Introduction) The waters of the sanctuary which this prophet saw in vision (Eze 47:1) are a proper representation of this prophecy. Hitherto the waters have been...

Constable: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The title of this book comes from its writer, Ezekiel, t...

Constable: Ezekiel (Outline) Outline I. Ezekiel's calling and commission chs. 1-3 A. The vision of God's glory ch. 1 ...

Constable: Ezekiel Ezekiel Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. Exile and Restoration. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. ...

Haydock: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL. INTRODUCTION. Ezechiel, whose name signifies the strength of God, was of the priestly race, and of the number of t...

Gill: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL This book is rightly placed after Jeremiah; since Ezekiel was among the captives in Chaldea, when prophesied; whereas Jerem...

Gill: Ezekiel 40 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 40 This and the eight following chapters contain a vision of a city and temple herein described, and are thought to be the ...

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