(KJV) Ezekiel 411
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⥃Inside the Temple
[1] Afterward he brought2 me to the temple3, and measured the posts4, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, [which was] the breadth of the tabernacle. [2] And the breadth of the door5 [was] ten cubits; and the sides of the door [were] five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length6 thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. [3] Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits7; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. [4] So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits8; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This9 [is] the most holy [place].
⥃Outside the Temple
[5] After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of [every] side chamber10, four cubits, round about the house on every side. [6] And the side chambers [were] three, one over another11, and thirty in order; and they12 entered into the wall which [was] of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold13, but14 they had not hold in the wall of the house. [7] And [there was15] an enlarging16, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [was still] upward, and so increased [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the midst. [8] I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers [were] a full17 reed of six great cubits. [9] The thickness of the wall, which [was] for the side chamber without, [was] five18 cubits: and [that] which19 [was] left [was] the place of the side chambers that [were] within. [10] And between the chambers20 [was] the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. [11] And the doors of the side chambers [were] toward [the place that was] left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth21 of the place that was left [was] five cubits round about. [12] Now the building that [was] before the separate22 place at the end toward the west [was] seventy cubits broad; and the wall23 of the building [was] five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. [13] So he measured24 the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; [14] Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
⥃The Interior Structures
[15] And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which [was] behind it, and the galleries25 thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the26 inner temple, and the porches of the court; [16] The door posts, and the narrow27 windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood28 round about, and from the ground up to the windows29, and the windows [were] covered30; [17] To that31 above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure32. [18] And [it was] made with cherubims33 and palm trees34, so that a palm tree [was] between a cherub and a cherub; and [every35] cherub had two faces; [19] So that the face of a man [was] toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: [it was] made through all the house round about. [20] From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple. [21] The posts36 of the temple [were] squared, [and] the face of the sanctuary; the appearance [of the one] as the appearance [of the other]. [22] The altar37 of wood [was] three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, [were] of wood: and he said unto me, This [is38] the table that [is] before39 the Lord. [23] And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.40 [24] And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves; two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other [door].41 [25] And [there were] made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims42 and palm trees, like as [were] made upon the walls; and [there were] thick planks upon the face of the porch without. [26] And [there were] narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and [upon] the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. 43
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Ezek 41:1, The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple. ↩
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1Kgs 6:2; Zech 6:12-13; Eph 2:20-22; 1Pet 2:5; Rev 3:12, Rev 11:1-2; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:15 ↩
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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. ↩
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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. Exod 26:36, Exod 36:37; 1Kgs 6:31-35; 2Chr 3:7, 2Chr 29:7; John 10:7, John 10:9 ↩
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This was the thickness of the partition wall between the sanctuary (Ezek 41:2) and holy of holies (Ezek 41:4); 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. Ezek 41:3 ↩
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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. ↩
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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. ↩
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Heb. it was, made broader, and went round, 1Kgs 6:8; Matt 13:32; Heb 6:1 ↩
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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. ↩
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This appears to have been a walk, or gallery of communication between the chambers, five cubits broad, into which the doors opened. Ezek 41:11, Ezek 42:1, Ezek 42:4 ↩
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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. Ezek 41:10 ↩
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Ezek 41:13-15, Ezek 42:1, Ezek 42:10, Ezek 42:13; Rev 21:27, Rev 22:14-15 ↩
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This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple. ↩
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Ezek 41:13-15 seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits. Ezek 41:13 ↩
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or, several walks, or walks with pillars, Ezek 42:3; Song 1:17, Song 7:5; Zech 3:7 ↩
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or, the ground unto the windows ↩
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Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both. ↩
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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. ↩
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Heb. measures, Ezek 42:15 ↩
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Heb. post, Ezek 40:14; 1Kgs 6:33 *marg. ↩
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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. Exod 30:1-3; 1Kgs 6:20, 1Kgs 6:22, 1Kgs 7:48; 2Chr 4:19; Rev 8:3 ↩
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Ezek 23:41, Ezek 44:16; Exod 25:28-30; Lev 24:6; Prov 9:2; Song 1:12; Mal 1:7, Mal 1:12; 1Cor 10:21; Rev 3:20 ↩