Text -- Ezekiel 41:15-26 (NET)

41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, 41:16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 41:17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement. 41:18 It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces: 41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around; 41:20 from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary. 41:21 The doorposts of the outer sanctuary were square. In front of the sanctuary one doorpost looked just like the other. 41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet high, with its length 3½ feet; its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” 41:23 The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door. 41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch. 41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 41:15

¹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

² tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”

NET Notes: Eze 41:17

¹ tc The LXX does not have the word “by measurements.” The word may be a technical term referring to carpentry technique, the exact meaning of which is unclear.

NET Notes: Eze 41:22

¹ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

² tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

³ tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”

NET Notes: Eze 41:24

¹ tn Heb “turning” leaves.

NET Notes: Eze 41:25

¹ tn Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.