Ezekiel 40:32-49
inner <06442> [into the.]
87½ <02572> [it was.]
decorative palm trees <08561> [palm trees.]
That is, probably, the capital of each pillar was ornamented with sculpture, representing leaves or branches of the palm tree.
eight steps <04609 08083> [eight steps.]
north <06828> [to the.]
measured <04058> [measured.]
The north gate, as well as the east, was built in the same manner, and of the same dimensions, as the south gate. See the parallel passages.
alcoves <08372> [little.]
jambs .............. jambs <0352> [the posts.]
outer court <02691 02435> [the utter court.]
That is, "the outer court," as the word utter primarily denotes.
chamber <03957> [the chambers.]
washed <01740> [where.]
This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests. An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews, at the 10th chapter and 22nd verse. "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
tables ........ slaughter <07979 07819> [tables on that.]
burnt offering <05930> [the burnt.]
sin offering <02403> [the sin.]
guilt offering <0817> [the trespass.]
outside ....................... side <03802> [at the side.]
Two tables were on each side, as you come into the porch of the gate; and two on each side of the inner part of the gate that looked towards the altar; in all eight tables, on which they slew and cut up the victims. It does not appear that any such tables were used either in the tabernacle or temple; and this seems to intimate the introduction of a new and more spiritual dispensation: See the referemces.
goes up <05927> [as one goeth up. or, at the step.]
house <01004> [within.]
These were probably for hanging up the victims in order to flay them.
hooks <08240> [hooks. or, end-irons, or, the two hearth-stones. upon.]
inner .......... inner <06442> [the inner.]
chambers <03957> [chambers.]
chamber <03957> [chamber.]
The word chamber probably here denotes a row of chambers, of which there seems to have been three: one for the singers; one for the priests who in their courses took charge of the sacred vessels and treasures; and one for the priests who attended on the altar and sacrifices.
faces <06440> [whose.]
keep <08104> [the keepers.]
charge <04931> [charge. or, ward, or, ordinance, and so ver.]
keep <08104> [the keepers.]
descendants ...... descendants <01121> [these.]
approach <07131> [which come.]
court <02691> [court.]
This was the inner court, or court of the priests, which was of the same dimensions with each division of the outer court; and the altar stood directly before the porch of the temple.
175 ... long ... 175 feet <03967 0520 0753> [an hundred cubits long.]
porch ........... porch <0197> [the porch.]
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, the same as the breadth of the temple, and the breadth eleven cubits, that is, one cubit more than in Solomon's temple. Two bivalve, or folding doors, each leaf of them being three cubits wide, seem to have formed the entrance; which, with five cubits, perhaps of brick or stone work, one each side, called "the post of the porch," amount to sixteen cubits; and the other four cubits may be supposed to have been the distance from these posts to the outside walls of the temple.
steps <04609> [The steps.]
This was a flight of steps which led from the inner court into the temple.
pillars <05982> [pillars.]
