Of our captivity — Of those that were carried away into captivity with Jeconiah eleven years before Jerusalem was burnt. And this falls in with the three thousand three hundred and seventy fourth year of the world, about five hundred and seventy four years before Christ's incarnation. The beginning... [ Continue Reading ]
In the visions of God — By this it appears it was not a corporeal transportation of the prophet. The frame — The portrait of a city. On the south — On the south of the mountain, where the prophet was set.... [ Continue Reading ]
A man — The same no doubt that appeared to the prophet, Ezekiel 1:26, whose name is the branch, and who builds the temple, Zechariah 6:12, whose colour was like burnished brass; Revelation 1:15, which speaks glory and strength. A line — A plumb — line, a mason's line to discover the rectitude of the... [ Continue Reading ]
A wall — This was that outmost wall, that compassed the whole mount Sion, upon whose top the temple stood. The man's hand — Christ, hath, and keeps the reed in his own hand, as the only fit person to take the measures of all. A measuring reed — Or cane, for this measuring rod was of those canes grow... [ Continue Reading ]
The east — Either of one of the inner walls, or of the temple itself. Went up — 'Till he was got up, he could not measure the threshold, which was at the top of the stairs, and these were ten, if the measurer be supposed in the gate of the house; or eight, if in the gate of the court of the priests;... [ Continue Reading ]
Chamber — Along the wall of the porch were chambers, three on one side, and three on the other, each one reed square. Five cubits — A space of two yards and one half between each chamber, either filled with some neat posts or pillars, or it may be quite void. Within — The inward and outward threshol... [ Continue Reading ]
The porch — The posts which were joined together at the top by an arch, and so made the portico.... [ Continue Reading ]
The porch — Probably another porch, or another gate distinct from that, Ezekiel 40:6. The posts — These were half columns, that from the floor to the height of the wall jetted out, as if one half of the column were in the wall, and the other without, and the protuberance of this half column, was one... [ Continue Reading ]
Chambers — These chambers were for the priests and Levites to lodge in during their ministration.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the entry — It is meant of the whole length of the entry, or walk through the porch, to which they ascended by stairs of a semicircular form.... [ Continue Reading ]
The space — The rails, which were set up at a cubit distance from the front of these little chambers, on the outside for convenient placing of benches for the priests to sit on. The space — Between the rails, and the chambers.... [ Continue Reading ]
From the roof — From the extremity of one little chamber on the north side of the gate, to the extremity of the opposite chamber on the south side, and so one cubit and half for the back wall of one chamber, and as much for the back wall of the other chamber, with the length of the chambers, six cub... [ Continue Reading ]
He made — Measured, and thereby shewed what kind of posts they should be. Threescore cubits — Probably this refers to the height of this gate built up two stories above the arch, and the posts in their height are only mentioned, but imply all the rest of the building over the east gate. Unto the pos... [ Continue Reading ]
And — This verse seems to sum up all the dimensions; this gate, its porch, and thickness of its walls, and so sum the cubits, six in the thickness of the outer wall, eighteen in the three chambers, twenty in the spaces between the chambers, and six cubits in the thickness in the inner wall of the po... [ Continue Reading ]
Narrow windows — Windows narrowed inward to the middle. Their posts — The upper lintel of each door over which was a window. To the arches — Windows under the arches between post and post, to give light to the five cubits space between chamber and chamber. Round about — These were on both sides of t... [ Continue Reading ]
The outward court — So called in regard of the more inward court, between that where he was, and the temple itself; this court, was the second about the temple. Chambers — Not only lodging rooms for the priests, but also store — houses for tithes and offerings. A pavement — A beautiful floor laid wi... [ Continue Reading ]
The pavement — That mentioned, Ezekiel 40:17. By the side — That part which lay on each side of the gate, and from thence spread itself toward the chambers, leaving a space of pavement of equal breadth with the porch, or gate in the middle. The length — The length was measured fifty cubits. The inne... [ Continue Reading ]
The breadth — Of the whole ground between the inner front of one gate and porch, to the outer front of the next gate more inward to the temple. The lower gate — Called so in respect to the next gate, which was on the higher ground. The forefront — To the outside front of the gate of the priests cour... [ Continue Reading ]
Before them — Within the steps or gate.... [ Continue Reading ]
Toward the east — The east gate of the inner court was directly over against the east gate of the outer court, and equally distant from each other.... [ Continue Reading ]
To it — The floor, or square court.... [ Continue Reading ]
Brought me — From the south — gate of the outer court through the porch, and over the hundred cubit pavement, to the south — gate of the inner court.... [ Continue Reading ]
The inner court — The court of the priests, which was next to the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
Within — Within the porch, where these tables stood. Hooks — Hooks on which the slaughtered sacrifice might be hanged, while they prepared it farther. Fastened — To walls no doubt, near these tables.... [ Continue Reading ]
The keepers — While, according to their courses, they had the charge of the house of God, and attended on the service of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The keepers — To preserve the fire perpetually on the altar.... [ Continue Reading ]
The breadth — The whole breadth was eleven cubits, but the breadth of each leaf of this folding — gate was three cubits, and they met, or shut on an upright post, set in the middle of the gate space, and this was one cubit broad. And each leaf hung on posts two cubits thick, which amount to eleven c... [ Continue Reading ]