Text -- Ezekiel 41:8-26 (NET)

41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 41:10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side. 41:11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around. 41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet all around, and its length 157½ feet. 41:13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long, 41:14 and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet. 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 41:8

¹ tn Heb “reed.”

² tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:9

¹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:10

¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:11

¹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:12

¹ tn Heb “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).

² tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

³ tn Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:13

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

² tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

NET Notes: Eze 41:14

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

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.