Ezekiel 41:1. Measurement of the "temple," the holy place, Fig. 2, B 1. The "posts" or jambs of the entrance wall were 6 cubits thick, Fig. 2, _cd_. _breadth of the tabernacle_ Heb. _tent_. The word does not occur in the prophet except in the compounds Oholah and Oholibah. Read: other side: THE BR... [ Continue Reading ]
The entrance way between the posts N. to S. was 10 cubits. Fig. 2, _cc, dd_. _sides of the door_ i.e. the pieces of wall running N. to S. on each side of the entrance, Fig. 2, _di_, that is, 10 + 5 + 5 = 20, breadth of the house. The length (E. to W.) of the "temple" or holy place was 40 cubits.... [ Continue Reading ]
The most holy place, Fig. 2, C 3. The wall was 2 cubits thick, Fig. 2, _ef_. _breadth of the door, seven cubits_ The actual door or entrance Fig. 2, _ee, ff_, was 6 cubits (preceding clause); the present statement, therefore, refers to the walls on either side of the entrance (N. to S.). LXX. read... [ Continue Reading ]
The most holy place was a square of 20 cubits. _before the temple in front of_. The "temple" is the holy place, 1 Kings 6:3; 1 Kings 6:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
The wall of the house at its base was 6 cubits thick, and the breadth (N. to S.) of the side-chambers on the basement was 4 cubits. If the rebatements in the wall of the house were the same here as in Solomon's temple, the second story would be a cubit broader than the ground floor, and the third a... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 41:5-11. The side chambers or annexe to the house The text in some places is confused, but the general meaning is clear. Round about the wall of the house on three sides (N., W. and S.) were built side-chambers in three stories, thirty chambers in each story, Fig. 2, D. The chamber on the g... [ Continue Reading ]
The Heb. would naturally read: "and the side-chambers were side-chamber against side-chamber three and thirty times" which would give 33 chambers. Apart from syntax this is not probable. LXX. and some other versions give a different order: "and the side-chambers, side-chamber against side-chamber, w... [ Continue Reading ]
What the verse means to say is that the side-chambers widened in the second and third stories through the retreating of the wall of the house. The present text being assumed it might read: "and there was a widening of the side-chambers and an encompassing (by them) ever upwards; for the encompassing... [ Continue Reading ]
_I saw also_ An uncommon form; usually it is said, _and there appeared_, which LXX. probably read here [13]. For "height" (gobah) probably "raised pavement" (gabbah, Gabbatha, John 19:13) should be read (cf. footnote) AND THE HOUSE APPEARED AS HAVING A RAISED PAVEMENT ROUND ABOUT, lit. there appeare... [ Continue Reading ]
The raised platform upon which the house and the side-chambers stood The house and the annexe stood on a platform raised a full reed, or 6 cubits above the level of the inner court (Ezekiel 41:8). The platform was reached in front of the house by a flight of so steps (Ezekiel 40:49) from the court.... [ Continue Reading ]
The outside wall of the side-chambers was 5 cubits; and there was left a part of the raised platform not covered by buildings (Ezekiel 41:11). that _which_was _left_was] This clause is in some disorder; and must be connected with Ezekiel 41:10. The text clearly distinguishes between "that which was... [ Continue Reading ]
The verse states plainly that the place that was left, i.e. the margin of platform unoccupied by buildings, was 5 cubits broad, Fig. 2, E. and that the doors of the side-chambers opened upon it, one on the N. and another on the S. side, Fig. 2, _g_. It is evident that the side-chambers could have do... [ Continue Reading ]
The building behind the house on the west, Fig. 3, K To the west of the house proper, but divided from it by the 20 cubits of the "separate place" (Fig. 3, H), was a large building, 70 cubits broad (E. to W. Fig. 3, _rp, sq_), and 90 long (N. to S. Fig. 3, _rs, pq_) breadth being the smaller and le... [ Continue Reading ]
Two measurements of 100 cubits E. to W _house an hundred cubits long_ namely, 5 (wall of porch, Ezekiel 40:48) + 12 (porch, Ezekiel 40:49) + 6 (wall of holy place, Ezekiel 41:1) + 40 (length of holy place, Ezekiel 41:2) + 2 (wall of holiest, Ezekiel 41:3) + 20 (length of holiest, Ezekiel 41:4) + 6 ... [ Continue Reading ]
General measurements of length and breadth of buildings. These measurements form three squares of 100 cubits. First, the inner court forms a square of 100 cubits when lines are drawn along the front of the house and in front of the inner ends of the gates, Fig. 3, _iklm_. Secondly, the house buildin... [ Continue Reading ]
Two measurements of 100 cubits from N. to S. The front of the house buildings, the "separate place" on each side of them being included, gives 100 cubits, namely, 20 (breadth of house) + 6 + 6 (side walls) + 4 + 4 (side-chambers) + 5 + 5 (walls of side-chambers) + 5 + 5 (remainder of raised basemen... [ Continue Reading ]
The "length" here is reckoned from N. to S. _which_was _behind it_ Rather: BEHIND WHICH IT WAS. The building, while lying "over against" the "separate place," was behind it, i.e. to the W. of it. If this construction be not adopted the meaning is, which (building) was behind it (the separate place)... [ Continue Reading ]
_over against the door_ the THRESHOLD. It looks as if some words had fallen out of the text here. LXX. reads: _and the house and the adjoining parts were wainscotted with wood round about_(and the floor). The present Heb. text, even if read, _and over against the threshold was a wainscotting of wood... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet is to be conceived as standing in the holy place, and when he speaks of the "door" he evidently refers to the end walls and not to the side walls. It remains obscure whether it be the "door" of the holiest or that of the holy place to which he refers. _and on the wall … temple_ The word... [ Continue Reading ]
_the posts … squared_ The text is very uncertain, the versions deviating from Heb. and from one another. The word "temple" (Ezekiel 41:20) being omitted the words read: _and the wall_, 21 _of the temple was square door-posts_a construction scarcely possible to express the idea that the wall _had_squ... [ Continue Reading ]
The altar was 3 cubits high and 2 long. LXX. adds that it was 2 broad. _the length thereof_… of _wood_ and THE BASE thereof, a simple emendation, after LXX., cf. Exodus 26:19 _seq_. The altar had corners, probably somewhat raised, but not horns. It was wholly of wood, and is called the table which i... [ Continue Reading ]
_two doors_ i.e. each had a double or two-leaved door.... [ Continue Reading ]
The doors of the holy place and the holiest. The temple or holy place and the holiest had each a two-leaved door; and each of the leaves was again divided into two leaves.... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the doors_ i.e. the leaves of the door had again two leaves, so that the doors as a whole of the holy place and holiest were each composed of four small leaves, like a screen.... [ Continue Reading ]
The doors of the holy place were carved with cherubs and palm trees just as the walls (Ezekiel 41:17 _seq_.). _thick planks upon the face_ The word rendered "thick planks" (_-ab_) occurs again 1 Kings 7:6 in connexion with a porch, but is of uncertain meaning. Here it is said to lie outside the porc... [ Continue Reading ]
For narrow windows, CLOSED. The "sides" (lit. shoulders) are the side walls of the porch, but whether the walls on both sides of the entrance be meant, or the end-walls (N. and S.), cannot be decided. There should be a full stop at _porch_. The next statement is incomplete: and the side-chambers of... [ Continue Reading ]