Ezekiel 41:8

The height of the house] RV 'that the house had a raised basement.'

The Western Building (Ezekiel 41:12), Fig. 3, K. This was on the W. of the Temple beyond the 'separate place' (H), and had walls 5 cubits thick. Its internal measurement was 90 cubits by 70, and its external one 100 cubits by 80.

General Measurements (Ezekiel 41:13). The Temple was 100 cubits long, and the western space H (20 cubits) with the building K (70 cubits) and its walls (10 cubits) made up another 100 cubits (Ezekiel 41:13) from E. to W. The front of the Temple with the E. ends of the separate places H H on either side of it made up 100 cubits (lm) from S. to N. (Ezekiel 41:14). The building K with its 'galleries' (walls) was also 100 cubits (pq, rs) from S. to N. (Ezekiel 41:15).

The Interior Decorations of the Temple (Ezekiel 41:15). Ezekiel 41:15 should end with 'cubits'. The vv. that follow are somewhat obscure. The windows that lit the interior of the Temple must have been above the third storey of the side chambers. What follows is all that can be clearly made out. The whole interior from the floor to the windows was panelled with wood and ornamented with cherubim and palm trees, placed alternately. Each cherub had two faces, a lion's and a man's. The porch seems to have been decorated with palm trees only (Ezekiel 41:26). Both the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies had two doors, each consisting of two leaves. These had cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls. Before the Holy of Holies (in the Holy Place) there was a wooden altar-shaped table 3 cubits high and 2 cubits long.

15b, 16. should perhaps read, 'and the Temple, and the inner house, and its outer porch were covered with a roof work, and they three had their closed windows and their galleries round about'. The 'galleries, may have been borders or dados.