Ezekiel 41 - Introduction
The temple Ezekiel 41:1. See Plan I.... [ Continue Reading ]
The temple Ezekiel 41:1. See Plan I.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TEMPLE - Properly the holy place (a), as distinguished from the porch (G) and the holy of holies (B) 1 Kings 6:17; 1 Kings 7:50. THE POSTS - The outer wall of the temple was six cubits thick Ezekiel 41:5. The eastern posts of this wall forming part of the front of the temple were ornamented wit... [ Continue Reading ]
The measurements are internal, the same as in the Temple of Solomon.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT HE INWARD - Toward the holy of holies. It is not said, “he brought me in,” but “he went in,” because the holy of holies was not to be entered even by a priest like Ezekiel, but only by the high priest once a year. So the “angel” enters and announces: the measurements. THE POST OF THE DOOR - On... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TEMPLE - here is the holy place as distinguished from the most holy, “the Oracle,” which is “before” the holy place, inwards.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WALL OF THE HOUSE - This was the outer wall of the temple itself. Its thickness of six cubits corresponds with the colossal proportions of the architecture of the east. EVERY SIDE CHAMBER - the side-chambers (D). These were a marked feature in Solomon’s Temple, and were probably used as storeho... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE, ONE OVER ANOTHER, AND THIRTY IN ORDER - i. e., there were three stories, and each story was divided into thirty chambers. THE WALL WHICH WAS OF THE HOUSE FOR THE SIDE CHAMBERS - Not the wall of the temple but another wall Ezekiel 41:9 parallel to it, which might be said to be “of the house,”... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ENLARGING - The “wall for the side-chambers” had for the ground story its full thickness of five cubits Ezekiel 41:9 - then it was diminished one cubit, so as to form a ledge whereon to rest the beams of the floor of the second story, and again was further diminished one cubit for the floor of th... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE SIDE CHAMBERS - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT WHICH WAS LEFT - i. e., the passage (F) between the side-chambers and the temple-wall, was five cubits Ezekiel 41:11. THE PLACE OF THE SIDE CHAMBERS THAT WERE WITHIN - Within the side-chambers which belong to the house. The seer is giving first the height of the side-chambers Ezekiel 41:8,... [ Continue Reading ]
See H, Plan I.... [ Continue Reading ]
The doors of the side-chambers opened on to the passage or corridor, between the chambers and the temple-wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEPARATE PLACE - See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate... [ Continue Reading ]
TOWARD THE EAST - The separate place was measured on its eastern side, for the western was not approachable for the purpose of measurement.... [ Continue Reading ]
The description of certain details is introduced by a summary statement of what had been already done. GALLERIES - On either side of the eastern front of the building on the separate place was a gallery of ten feet, under which was an approach to the building, by which the refuse was to be carried... [ Continue Reading ]
GALLERIES - The upper story of the side-chambers was probably built in the form of an open gallery. OVER AGAINST THE DOOR - The rows of the side-chambers extended to the front of the temple, so that they were “over against” the opening, but did not extend so far as the porch. CIELED - Overlaid. Pi... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THAT ... - Over above the door ...”within and without” was “by measure.” This verse asserts that all the overlaying was done by careful measurement.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the symbolism of the “cherubim” see Ezekiel 1:1 note ... EVERY CHERUB HAD TWO FACES - Not as in Ezekiel 1, “four faces.” Convenience of delineation upon a wall may have suggested the alteration. The cherubic devices on the curtains of the tabernacle Exodus 26:1; Exodus 36:8 were no doubt like th... [ Continue Reading ]
THE POSTS - Not the word used before (see Ezekiel 40:9 note). These “posts” are rather pilasters forming part of the inner walls. THE APPEARANCE ... OTHER - i. e., the appearance in this vision was the same as in the actual temple (compare Ezekiel 43:3); (or, according to others, the front of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ALTAR OF WOOD - The altar for incense (marginal reference); “altar of gold” (see 1 Kings 7:48). WALLS - The corner pieces of the altar, rising into projections called in Exodus horns, here corners. TABLE - “table and altar” were convertible terms Malachi 1:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
See the marginal reference. Ezekiel 41:25 THICK PLANKS - Others render it: leaves in wood (and in Ezekiel 41:26).... [ Continue Reading ]