Ezekiel 41:1--42:20
brought <0935> [he brought.]
outer sanctuary <01964> [to the temple.]
jambs <0352> [the posts.]
These were probably a sort of door-case on each side of the entrance; and the tabernacle perhaps was a kind of covering to the door, of the same dimensions.
entrance .......... entrance <06607> [the door. or, the entrance.]
This was the door out of the porch into the sanctuary, which seems to have been wider than that from the court to the porch.
length <0753> [the length.]
3½ feet ..... 10½ feet ......... 12¼ feet <08147 0520> [two cubits.]
This was the thickness of the partition wall between the sanctuary (ver. 2) and holy of holies (ver. 4); the breadth of the wall on each side of the gate being seven cubits, and the entrance into the holy place six cubits in width.
35 feet ...... 35 feet <0520 06242> [twenty cubits.]
most holy <06944> [This.]
chambers <06763> [side chamber.]
side chambers ..... stories ........................ side chambers <06763> [one over another. Heb. side chamber over side chamber. thirty in order. or, three and thirty times, or feet.]
We find by Josephus, that around Solomon's temple were chambers three stories high, each story consisting of thirty chambers; which are supposed to have been on the north, south, and east sides of the temple.
offsets <0935> [and they.]
[have held. Heb. be holden.]
supports ......... supports <0270> [but.]
That is, the beams or supporters, of the chambers were not let into the main wall of the temple; but rested on projections of the outer wall, which became a cubit narrower at every story, leaving a ledge of one cubit, to support the beams.
wider <07337> [there was. Heb. it was, made broader, and went round.]
wider <07337> [an enlarging.]
In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall decreased, the chambers increased, so that the middle story was one cubit larger, and the upper story two cubits larger, than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase, which widened in the same manner as the rooms, ascended from the bottom to the top.
full <04393> [a full.]
8¾ <02568> [was five.]
<03240> [that which.]
This appears to have been a walk, or gallery of communication between the chambers, five cubits broad, into which the doors opened.
chambers <03957> [the chambers.]
As the word rendered chambers is different from that used before, it is supposed there was another row of buildings, parallel with the side chambers, with a passage of twenty cubits between.
width <07341> [and the breadth.]
temple courtyard <01508> [separate.]
wall <07023> [the wall.]
This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.
measured <04058> [he measured.]
These verses (13-15) seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits.
galleries <0862> [galleries. or, several walks, or walks with pillars.]
interior <06442> [with the.]
narrow <0331> [narrow.]
[ceiled with wood. Heb. ceiling of wood.]
windows .................... ground ..... windows .... windows <02474 0776> [from the ground up to the windows. or, the ground unto the windows. covered.]
Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both.
entrance <06607> [To that.]
That is, the windows were placed above the height of the door, at the east end of the temple, and thus continued, at the same height, and at measured distances, along both sides of the holy place, to the wall of the inner sanctuary, in which there were no windows.
measurement <04060> [measure. Heb. measures.]
cherubim ............ cherub ... cherub <03742> [with cherubims.]
decorative palm trees .... palm tree <08561> [palm trees.]
cherubim ............ cherub ... cherub <03742> [and every.]
doorposts <04201> [posts. Heb. post.]
altar <04196> [altar.]
This must signify the altar of incense; which, both in the tabernacle and Solomon's temple, was covered with plates of gold. It is very remarkable, that in this temple described by Ezekiel, there is not the least mention of gold or silver, though there was such a profusion of these metals in the former; which may probably imply, that a glory of a more spiritual nature was intended under these emblems.
table <07979> [This is.]
before <06440> [before.]
cherubim <03742> [cherubims.]
out .......... brought <03318 0935> [he brought.]
outer court <02691 02435> [the utter court.]
chamber <03957> [chamber.]
This seems to denote a row of chambers in three stories; which appear to have been situated in the inner court, (here called the outer court in reference to the temple, ver. 13, 14,) just before the separate place, at the entrance from the north.
<06440> [Before.]
Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters.
35 feet ........... pavement <06242 07531> [Over.]
One side of these buildings looked upon the void space about the temple of twenty cubits, and the other toward the pavement belonging to the outer court.
35 feet <06242> [the twenty.]
pavement <07531> [the pavement.]
gallery faced gallery <06440 0862> [gallery against.]
front <06440> [before.]
These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width; with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.
walkway <04109> [a walk.]
distance <01870> [a way.]
space ... them <0398 02007> [were higher than these. or, did eat of these.]
lower ... middle ..... building <08481 08484 01146> [than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost.]
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facing <06440> [before.]
Passing from the north to the south side of the temple (ver. 11, 12,) the prophet was shewn that the space of ground, which was before the temple on the east, measured 100 cubits.
chambers <03957> [from under. or, from the place of.]
passage <03996> [the entry. or, he that brought me. as one goeth. or, as he came.]
beginning <07341> [the thickness.]
Rather, "the breadth of the wall," that is, the breadth of ground which it enclosed.
facing <06440> [over against.]
These south chambers were exactly like those on the north.
opening <06607> [was a door.]
holy ............. most holy ........ most holy <06944> [they be holy.]
approach <07138> [approach.]
holy ............. most holy ........ most holy <06944> [the most holy.]
out <03318> [they not go.]
put on <03847> [and shall put.]
measuring <04060> [measuring.]
gate <08179> [gate.]
side <07307> [side. Heb. wind. the measuring reed.]
Estimating the reed at 10« feet, 500 reeds will be nearly equal to a mile; so that from this statement we find the temple, with its outbuildings, was built on a square, nearly an English mile on each side, and four miles in circumference. This not only far exceeds the size of Solomon's temple, or that after the captivity, which was only 500 cubits, or a furlong, on each side, and exactly half a mile in circuit; but is nearly equal to the whole extent of Jerusalem itself, which, when greatest, was but 33 furlongs in circumference, somewhat less than 4¬ miles. This seems clearly to intimate, that the vision cannot be explained of any temple that has hitherto been built, or indeed of any literal temple, but figuratively and mystically of the spiritual temple, the church under the gospel, and its spiritual glory.
wall <02346> [it had.]
875 ..... 875 <02568 03967> [five hundred.]
separate <0914> [a separation.]
