Ezekiel 41:1
The breadth — These walls in their thickness took up as much space as the whole breadth of Moses's tabernacle, Exodus 26:16, Exodus 26:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
The breadth — These walls in their thickness took up as much space as the whole breadth of Moses's tabernacle, Exodus 26:16, Exodus 26:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Went he — From the porch thro' the body of the temple, to the partition between the body of the temple and the holy of holies. Measured — Either the thickness of that partition wall, or of the pilasters, which stood one on the one side, and the other on the other side of the door. Of the door — Or e... [ Continue Reading ]
Thereof — Of the holy of holies, which was an exact square. Before — Parallel with the breadth of the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
After — Having left the holy of holies, now he is come to take the measures of the outer wall. The house — The temple. Six cubits — Three yards thick was this wall from the ground to the first story of the side — chambers. Side — chamber — Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these,... [ Continue Reading ]
They might — That the beams of the chambers might have good and firm resting — hold. Had not hold — The ends of the beams were not thrust into the main body of the wall of the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
An enlarging — Of the side chambers, so much of breadth added to the chamber, as was taken from the thickness of the wall; that is, two cubits in the uppermost, and one cubit in the middle — most, more than in the lowest chambers. A winding about — Winding stairs, which enlarged as the rooms did, an... [ Continue Reading ]
The foundations — The lowest chamber had properly a foundation laid on the earth, but the floor of the middle, and highest story must be accounted here a foundation; so from the ground to the ceiling of the first room, was six great cubits; from the first to the second, six great cubits; and from th... [ Continue Reading ]
The place — The walk and wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
The doors — The doors of the lowest row opened into this void paved space.... [ Continue Reading ]
The building — This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself.... [ Continue Reading ]
The house — The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary and porch, with the walls. The building — On both the north and south — side of the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
The breadth — The whole front of the house eastward.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cherubim — Generally taken for the portrait of angels, or young men with wings: yet is the description of them very different in different places; in Ezekiel's vision, Ezekiel 1:5, Ezekiel 10:14, Isaiah's vision, Isaiah 6:2, John's vision, Revelation 4:6, and in Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Through all the house — And thus it was through the whole house round about.... [ Continue Reading ]
The face — The door or gate of the temple was square, not arched. As the appearance — As was the form of the gate of the temple in its larger, so was the form of the gate of the oracle in its lesser dimensions.... [ Continue Reading ]
The altar — Of incense. The corners — The horns framed out of the four posts at each angle on the top of the altar. The walls — The sides. Before the Lord — In the temple, not in the holy of holies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Two doors — Each had one.... [ Continue Reading ]
Them — The doors of both temple and oracle. The temple — Including the holy of holies also.... [ Continue Reading ]