Teks -- Ezekiel 41:1-26 (NET)

The Inner Temple

41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet wide on each side. 41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, and the sides of the entrance were 8¾ feet on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, and its width as 35 feet. 41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, the entrance as 10½ feet, and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 41:4 Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.” 41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple. 41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story. 41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple 41:10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side. 41:11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around. 41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet all around, and its length 157½ feet. 41:13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long, 41:14 and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet. 41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, 41:16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 41:17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement. 41:18 It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces: 41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around; 41:20 from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary. 41:21 The doorposts of the outer sanctuary were square. In front of the sanctuary one doorpost looked just like the other. 41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet high, with its length 3½ feet; its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” 41:23 The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door. 41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood on the front of the outside porch. 41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 41:1 - The breadth

These walls in their thickness took up as much space as the whole breadth of Moses's tabernacle, Exo 26:16, Exo 26:22.

Wesley: Eze 41:3 - 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.

Wesley: Eze 41:3 - 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.

Wesley: Eze 41:3 - Of the door

Or entrance out of the temple into the oracle.

Wesley: Eze 41:3 - And the door

This door was six cubits broad, and an upright bar or post on which the leaves met, and which was of one cubit's breadth, make out seven cubits.

Wesley: Eze 41:4 - Thereof

Of the holy of holies, which was an exact square.

Wesley: Eze 41:4 - Before

Parallel with the breadth of the temple.

Wesley: Eze 41:5 - After

Having left the holy of holies, now he is come to take the measures of the outer wall.

Wesley: Eze 41:5 - The house

The temple.

Wesley: Eze 41:5 - Six cubits

Three yards thick was this wall from the ground to the first story of the side - chambers.

Wesley: Eze 41:5 - Side

chamber - Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differed in their breadth, as the wall of the temple, on which they rested, abated of its thickness; for the middle chambers were broader than the lowest by a cubit, and the highest as much broader than the middle.

Wesley: Eze 41:5 - Round about

On the north, south, and west parts, on each side of every one of these three gates.

Wesley: Eze 41:6 - They might

That the beams of the chambers might have good and firm resting - hold.

Wesley: Eze 41:6 - Had not hold

The ends of the beams were not thrust into the main body of the wall of the temple.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - 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.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - A winding about

Winding stairs, which enlarged as the rooms did, and these run up between each two chambers from the bottom to the top; so there were two doors at the head of each pair of stairs, one door opening into one chamber, and the other into the opposite chamber.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - For the winding about

These stairs, as they rose in height, enlarged themselves too.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - Round about

On all sides of the house where these chambers were.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - The breadth

Of each chamber.

Wesley: Eze 41:7 - Increased

Grew broader by one cubit in every upper chamber. From five in the lowest to six in the middle, and to seven in the highest chamber.

Wesley: Eze 41:8 - 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 the third floor to the roof of the chamber, a like number; to which add we one cubit for thickness of each of the three floors, you have twenty - one cubits for height, ten yards and a half high.

Wesley: Eze 41:9 - The place

The walk and wall.

Wesley: Eze 41:11 - The doors

The doors of the lowest row opened into this void paved space.

Wesley: Eze 41:12 - The building

This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself.

Wesley: Eze 41:13 - The house

The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary and porch, with the walls.

Wesley: Eze 41:13 - The building

On both the north and south - side of the temple.

Wesley: Eze 41:14 - The breadth

The whole front of the house eastward.

Wesley: Eze 41:18 - 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, Eze 1:5-14, Eze 10:14, Isaiah's vision, Isa 6:2, John's vision, Rev 4:6-8, and in Solomon's temple, 1Ki 6:23-26.

Wesley: Eze 41:19 - Through all the house

And thus it was through the whole house round about.

Wesley: Eze 41:21 - The face

The door or gate of the temple was square, not arched.

Wesley: Eze 41:21 - 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.

Wesley: Eze 41:22 - The altar

Of incense.

Wesley: Eze 41:22 - The corners

The horns framed out of the four posts at each angle on the top of the altar.

Wesley: Eze 41:22 - The walls

The sides.

Wesley: Eze 41:22 - Before the Lord

In the temple, not in the holy of holies.

Wesley: Eze 41:23 - Two doors

Each had one.

Wesley: Eze 41:25 - Them

The doors of both temple and oracle.

Wesley: Eze 41:25 - The temple

Including the holy of holies also.

JFB: Eze 41:1 - tabernacle

As in the measurement of the outer porch he had pointed to Solomon's temple, so here in the edifice itself, he points to the old tabernacle, which being eight boards in breadth (each one and a half cubits broad) would make in all twelve cubits, as here. On the interior it was only ten cubits.

JFB: Eze 41:2 - length thereof

Namely, of the holy place [FAIRBAIRN].

JFB: Eze 41:3 - inward

Towards the most holy place.

JFB: Eze 41:4 - thereof

Of the holy of holies.

JFB: Eze 41:4 - before the temple

That is, before, or in front of the most holy place (so "temple" is used in 1Ki 6:3). The angel went in and measured it, while Ezekiel stood in front, in the only part of the temple accessible to him. The dimensions of the two apartments are the same as in Solomon's temple, since being fixed originally by God, they are regarded as finally determined.

JFB: Eze 41:5 - side chamber

The singular used collectively for the plural. These chambers were appendages attached to the outside of the temple, on the west, north, and south; for on the east side, the principal entrance, there were no chambers. The narrowness of the chambers was in order that the beams could be supported without needing pillars.

JFB: Eze 41:6 - might . . . hold, but . . . not hold in . . . wall of the house

1Ki 6:6 tells us there were rests made in the walls of the temple for supports to the side chambers; but the temple walls did not thereby become part of this side building; they stood separate from it. "They entered," namely, the beams of the chambers, which were three-storied and thirty in consecutive order, entered into the wall, that is, were made to lean on rests projecting from the wall.

JFB: Eze 41:7 - the breadth . . . so increased from the lowest . . . to the highest

That is, the breadth of the interior space above was greater than that below.

JFB: Eze 41:8 - foundations . . . six . . . cubits

The substructure, on which the foundations rested, was a full reed of six cubits.

JFB: Eze 41:8 - great

Literally, "to the extremity" or root, namely, of the hand [HENDERSON]. "To the joining," or point, where the foundation of one chamber ceased and another began [FAIRBAIRN].

JFB: Eze 41:9 - that which was left

There was an unoccupied place within chambers that belonged to the house. The buildings in this unoccupied place, west of the temple, and so much resembling it in size, imply that no place was to be left which was to be held, as of old, not sacred. Manasseh (2Ki 23:11) had abused these "suburbs of the temple" to keeping horses sacred to the sun. All excuse for such abominations was henceforth to be taken away, the Lord claiming every space, and filling up this also with sacred erections [FAIRBAIRN].

JFB: Eze 41:10 - the chambers

That is, of the priests in the court: between these and the side chambers was the wideness, &c. While long details are given as to the chambers, &c., no mention is made of the ark of the covenant. FAIRBAIRN thus interprets this: In future there was to be a perfect conformity to the divine idea, such as there had not been before. The dwellings of His people should all become true sanctuaries of piety. Jehovah Himself, in the full display of the divine Shekinah, shall come in the room of the ark of the covenant (Jer 3:16-17). The interior of the temple stands empty, waiting for His entrance to fill it with His glory (Eze 43:1-12). It is the same temple, but the courts of it have become different to accommodate a more numerous people. The entire compass of the temple mount has become a holy of holies (Eze 43:12).

JFB: Eze 41:12-15

Sum of the measures of the temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it.

JFB: Eze 41:15 - galleries

Terrace buildings. On the west or back of the temple, there was a separate place occupied by buildings of the same external dimensions as the temple, that is, one hundred cubits square in the entire compass [FAIRBAIRN].

JFB: Eze 41:16 - covered

Being the highest windows they were "covered" from the view below. Or else "covered with lattice-work."

JFB: Eze 41:17 - by measure

Measurements were taken [FAIRBAIRN].

JFB: Eze 41:21 - appearance of the one as the appearance of the other

The appearance of the sanctuary or holy of holies was similar to that of the temple. They differed only in magnitude.

JFB: Eze 41:22 - table . . . before the Lord

The altar of incense (Eze 44:16). At it, not at the table of showbread, the priests daily ministered. It stood in front of the veil, and is therefore said to be "before the Lord." It is called a table, as being that at which the Lord will take delight in His people, as at a feast. Hence its dimensions are larger than that of old--three cubits high, two broad, instead of two and one.

JFB: Eze 41:25 - thick planks

A thick-plank work at the threshold.

Clarke: Eze 41:1 - To the temple

To the temple - He had first described the courts and the porch. See chap. 40.

Clarke: Eze 41:2 - The breadth of the door

The breadth of the door - This was the door, or gate, of the sanctuary, (see gates 3, in the plan), and this doorway was filled up with folding gates. The measurements are exactly the same as those of Solomon’ s temple. See 1Ki 6:2, 1Ki 6:17.

Clarke: Eze 41:4 - The length thereof, twenty cubits

The length thereof, twenty cubits - This is the measurement of the sanctuary, or holy of holies. See G in the plan. This also was the exact measurement of Solomon’ s temple, see 1Ki 6:20. This, and the other resemblances here, sufficiently prove that Ezekiel’ s temple and that of Solomon were on the same plan; and that the latter temple was intended to be an exact resemblance of the former.

Clarke: Eze 41:6 - The side chambers were three

The side chambers were three - We find by Joseph. Antiq. 8:3, 2, that round Solomon’ s temple were chambers three stories high, each story consisting of thirty chambers. It is supposed that twelve were placed to the north of the temple, twelve to the south, and six to the east

Clarke: Eze 41:6 - Entered into the wall

Entered into the wall - The beams were admitted into the outer wall, but they rested on projections of the inner wall.

Clarke: Eze 41:7 - An enlarging, and a winding about

An enlarging, and a winding about - Perhaps a winding staircase that-widened upward as the inner wall decreased in thickness; this wall being six cubits thick; as high as the first story, five from the floor of the second story to that of the third, and four from the floor to the ceiling of the third story: and thus there was a rest of one cubit in breadth to support the stories. - Newcome.

Clarke: Eze 41:9 - The thickness of the wall

The thickness of the wall - See LLL in the plan

Clarke: Eze 41:9 - The place of the side chambers

The place of the side chambers - A walk, or gallery of communication along the chambers, five cubits broad, Eze 41:11.

Clarke: Eze 41:11 - And the doors

And the doors - See the plan, aa. bb.

Clarke: Eze 41:12 - The length thereof ninety cubits

The length thereof ninety cubits - The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was eighty-one cubits long; add ten cubits for the vestibule, or five for the breadth of the separate place, and five for its wall; in all, ninety cubits. See the plan, LHIL. By the separate place I suppose the temple itself is meant.

Clarke: Eze 41:13 - So he measured the house

So he measured the house - The temple, taken from the wall which encompassed it from the western side to the vestibule, was one hundred and one cubits; five for the separate place, nine for the wall and the chambers attached to the temple, sixty for the sanctuary and the holy place, ten for the vestibule, and twelve for the two great walls on the west and east of the temple; in all, one hundred and one cubits, See the plan, GHI.

Clarke: Eze 41:14 - The breadth of the face of the house

The breadth of the face of the house - That is, the front. See the plan, FRR.

Clarke: Eze 41:18 - A palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub

A palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub - That is, the palm trees and the cherubs were alternated; and each cherub had two faces, one of a lion and the other of a man; one of which was turned to the palm tree on the right, the other to the palm tree on the left.

Clarke: Eze 41:20 - From the ground unto above the door

From the ground unto above the door - The temple was thirty cubits high, 1Ki 6:2, the gate was fourteen cubits, chap. Eze 40:48. The palm trees and the cherubim were the same height as the gate or door. The windows were above the door.

Clarke: Eze 41:22 - The altar of wood

The altar of wood - This was the altar of incense, and was covered with plates of gold.

Clarke: Eze 41:25 - There were thick planks

There were thick planks - The wood, or planks, were thick and strong; for the cherubim and palm trees were carved in relief out of their substance, and unless they had been of considerable thickness, this could not have been done.

Defender: Eze 41:1 - the temple

This is the first time in these chapters that Ezekiel actually calls the structure he is describing, "the temple." There is no doubt, however, that this is the subject throughout.

Defender: Eze 41:1 - measured

The measurements given in these chapters are different from those of Solomon's temple, the post-exile temple and Herod's temple, all of which have already been destroyed. The temple yet to be built as mentioned in Rev 11:1, Rev 11:2 is apparently also to be destroyed (Zec 14:1-3). In these chapters, however, Ezekiel is evidently describing a great future temple which will function throughout the whole thousand years of the millennial kingdom. The detailed dimensions and descriptions may seem obscure and unimportant in this age (the same might be said of the details of the tabernacle in the wilderness and the temple of Solomon in past ages), but they will be of great significance to the people living then. Remember that the Bible endures through all ages (Psa 119:89)."

TSK: Eze 41:1 - he brought // to the temple // the posts

he brought : Eze 40:2, Eze 40:3, Eze 40:17

to the temple : 1Ki 6:2; Zec 6:12, Zec 6:13; Eph 2:20-22; 1Pe 2:5; Rev 3:12, Rev 11:1, Rev 11:2; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:15

the posts : These were probably a sort of door-case on each side of the entrance; and the tabernacle perhaps was a kind of covering to the door, of the same dimensions.

TSK: Eze 41:2 - the door // the length

the door : or, the entrance, This was the door out of the porch into the sanctuary, which seems to have been wider than that from the court to the porch. Exo 26:36, Exo 36:37; 1Ki 6:31-35; 2Ch 3:7, 2Ch 29:7; Joh 10:7, Joh 10:9

the length : 1Ki 6:2, 1Ki 6:17; 2Ch 3:3

TSK: Eze 41:3 - two cubits

two cubits : This was the thickness of the partition wall between the sanctuary (Eze 41:2) and holy of holies (Eze 41:4); the breadth of the wall on each side of the gate being seven cubits, and the entrance into the holy place six cubits in width. Eze 41:3

TSK: Eze 41:4 - twenty cubits // This

twenty cubits : 1Ki 6:20; 2Ch 3:8; Rev 21:16

This : Exo 26:33, Exo 26:34; Heb 9:3-8

TSK: Eze 41:5 - side chamber

side chamber : Eze 41:6, Eze 41:7, Eze 42:3-14; 1Ki 6:5, 1Ki 6:6

TSK: Eze 41:6 - one over another // and they // have hold // but

one over another : Heb. side chamber over side chamber, thirty in order. or, three and thirty times, or feet. We find by Josephus, that around Solomon’ s temple were chambers three stories high, each story consisting of thirty chambers; which are supposed to have been on the north, south, and east sides of the temple.

and they : 1Ki 6:6, 1Ki 6:10

have hold : Heb. be holden, 1Pe 1:5

but : That is, the beams or supporters, of the chambers were not let into the main wall of the temple; but rested on projections of the outer wall, which became a cubit narrower at every story, leaving a ledge of one cubit, to support the beams.

TSK: Eze 41:7 - there was // an enlarging

there was : Heb. it was, made broader, and went round, 1Ki 6:8; Mat 13:32; Heb 6:1

an enlarging : In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall decreased, the chambers increased, so that the middle story was one cubit larger, and the upper story two cubits larger, than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase, which widened in the same manner as the rooms, ascended from the bottom to the top.

TSK: Eze 41:8 - a full

a full : Eze 40:5; Rev 21:16

TSK: Eze 41:9 - was five // that which

was five : Eze 41:5

that which : This appears to have been a walk, or gallery of communication between the chambers, five cubits broad, into which the doors opened. Eze 41:11, Eze 42:1, Eze 42:4

TSK: Eze 41:10 - the chambers

the chambers : As the word rendered chambers is different from that used before, it is supposed there was another row of buildings, parallel with the side chambers, with a passage of twenty cubits between. Eze 41:10

TSK: Eze 41:11 - and the breadth

and the breadth : Eze 41:9, Eze 42:4

TSK: Eze 41:12 - separate // the wall

separate : Eze 41:13-15, Eze 42:1, Eze 42:10,Eze 42:13; Rev 21:27, Rev 22:14, Rev 22:15

the wall : This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.

TSK: Eze 41:13 - he measured

he measured : Eze 41:13-15 seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits. Eze 41:13

TSK: Eze 41:15 - galleries // with the

galleries : or, several walks, or walks with pillars, Eze 42:3; Son 1:17, Son 7:5; Zec 3:7

with the : Eze 41:17, Eze 42:15

TSK: Eze 41:16 - narrow // ceiled with wood // from the ground up to the windows // covered

narrow : Eze 41:26, Eze 40:16, Eze 40:25; 1Ki 6:4; 1Co 13:12

ceiled with wood : Heb. ceiling of wood, 1Ki 6:15; 2Ch 3:5; Hag 1:4

from the ground up to the windows : or, the ground unto the windows

covered : Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both.

TSK: Eze 41:17 - To that // measure

To that : That is, the windows were placed above the height of the door, at the east end of the temple, and thus continued, at the same height, and at measured distances, along both sides of the holy place, to the wall of the inner sanctuary, in which there were no windows.

measure : Heb. measures, Eze 42:15

TSK: Eze 41:18 - with cherubims // palm trees // and every

with cherubims : 1Ki 6:29-32, 1Ki 7:36; 2Ch 3:7

palm trees : Eze 40:16, Eze 40:22; Rev 7:9

and every : Eze 1:10, Eze 10:14, Eze 10:21; Rev 4:7-9

TSK: Eze 41:21 - posts

posts : Heb. post, Eze 40:14; 1Ki 6:33 *marg.

TSK: Eze 41:22 - altar // This is // before

altar : This must signify the altar of incense; which, both in the tabernacle and Solomon’ s temple, was covered with plates of gold. It is very remarkable, that in this temple described by Ezekiel, there is not the least mention of gold or silver, though there was such a profusion of these metals in the former; which may probably imply, that a glory of a more spiritual nature was intended under these emblems. Exo 30:1-3; 1Ki 6:20,1Ki 6:22, 1Ki 7:48; 2Ch 4:19; Rev 8:3

This is : Eze 23:41, Eze 44:16; Exo 25:28-30; Lev 24:6; Pro 9:2; Son 1:12; Mal 1:7, Mal 1:12; 1Co 10:21; Rev 3:20

before : Exo 30:8

TSK: Eze 41:23

1Ki 6:31-35; 2Ch 4:22

TSK: Eze 41:24

Eze 40:48

TSK: Eze 41:25 - cherubims

cherubims : Eze 41:16-20

TSK: Eze 41:26

Eze 41:16, Eze 40:16

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 41:2 - The door // The sides of the door // The length of the sanctuary

The door or the aperture, the open space which let in light, as well as men; properly the door of the porch. Ten cubits, between post and post, on which the folding doors did hang.

The sides of the door the space from the edge of the wall by the posts to the side wall inward was on each side five cubits, on the north side so many, and on the south so many, which make the contents between wall and wall, as the verse hath it, twenty cubits in breadth.

The length of the sanctuary from the porch to the partition between the holy of holies, and the inward front of the wall of the sanctuary, was forty cubits, unless we must take in the thickness of the walls of both sanctuary and holy of holies, of which more may possibly be spoken.

Poole: Eze 41:3 - Inward // The post // The door

Inward from the porch through the body of the temple, to the partition between the body of the temple and the holy of holies, or the oracle.

The post either the thickness of that partition wall, or of the pilasters, which stood one on one side and the other on the other side of the door.

The door or entrance out of the temple into the oracle. This door was

six cubits high say some, but, more likely, it was six cubits broad, and an upright bar or post on which the leaves did meet, and which was of one cubit’ s breadth, make out the seven cubits mentioned in the last words of this verse.

Poole: Eze 41:4 - The length thereof // Before the temple // He said unto me // This is the most holy place // the inner house

The length thereof of the oracle, or holy of holies. It was an exact square, as was Solomon’ s, 1Ki 6:20 .

Before the temple parallel with the breadth of the temple.

He said unto me the prophet was commanded to hear, and now he shows us his attention.

This is the most holy place as having the tokens of God’ s more especial presence, in that the mercy-seat and propitiatory were there, so called Num 7:89 ; it was called also the oracle , 1Ki 6:16 , and

the inner houseEze 41:15,17 .

Poole: Eze 41:5 - The house // Six cubits // Every side chamber // Round about // On every side

Having left the holy of holies measured in the 3rd verse, now he is come to take the measures of the outer wall.

The house the temple itself,

Six cubits three yards thick was this wall from the ground to the first story of the side chambers.

Every side chamber of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differed in their breadth, as the wall of the temple on which they rested abated of its thickness; for the middle chambers were broader than the lowest by a cubit, and the highest as much broader than the middle.

Round about on the north, south, and west parts.

On every side on each side of every one of these three gates. The east gate, and buildings about that, were not faced with such facings.

Poole: Eze 41:6 - One over another // Thirty in order // The wall // That they might have hold // They had not hold in the wall

One over another in three stories high.

Thirty in order: how these thirty in a row were distributed is not said, some guess twelve on the north side, as many on the south side, and six on the west; but as this may be, so possibly it may not be; but we are sure the whole number is thirty in a row on each story, i.e. three times thirty, or ninety in all.

The wall not the five or six cubit wall, which was the wall of the house, but another wall of one cubit thickness, on the top whereof was a rest or ledge of one cubit breadth, on which the ends of the cedar beams were fastened. It is said this was built

for the side chambers: either from the foundation the wall was made so thick, that at five cubits from the ground they might rebate or draw in the thickness of the ascending wall one cubit, or else this cubit-thick wall was after added; but this, as not probable, I reject.

That they might have hold that the beams of the chambers might have good and firm resting hold.

They had not hold in the wall the ends of the beams were not thrust into the main body of the wall of the temple, as we see beams laid into the body of the walls of houses. But for each story a rebatement of one cubit in the thickness of the wall, so that six cubits thick at the ground, up to the first floor, and five cubits thick from that to the second floor, and four cubits thick from the second to the third floor, so each floor rests on a ledge of one cubit without the wall, and each story grows a cubit broader than that which is next lower.

Poole: Eze 41:7 - An enlarging // A winding about // Round about // The breadth of the house // Increased

An enlarging viz. 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 middlemost, more than in the lowest chambers.

A winding about winding stairs which enlarged as the rooms did, and these run up between each two chambers, from the bottom to the top; so there were two doors at the head of each pair of stairs, one door opening into one chamber, and the other into the opposite chamber: or else you must make the chambers thoroughfares, and suppose passages through all. These stairs, as they rose in height, enlarged themselves too.

Round about i.e. on all sides of the house where these chambers were, which, as observed, was on three sides of the house.

The breadth of the house of each chamber.

Increased grew broader by one cubit in every upper room or chamber; from five in the lowest to six in the middle, and to seven in the highest chamber.

Poole: Eze 41:8 - Of the house

Of the house of the chambers, or the three stories of them; it is not the temple. 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 beams, joists, and boards to the second; six great cubits; and from the third floor to the roof of the chamber, a like number: to which if we add one cubit for thickness of each of the three roofs or floors, you have twenty-one cubits for height, ten yards and half high.

Poole: Eze 41:9 - That which was left // Within the walk and wall

The outward wall for these chambers was five cubits in thickness, and was made of stone, which added both beauty and strength to the other part of the building, and served as buttresses to the temple wall.

That which was left that space which was left without this wall, about five cubits broad, and served for a walk before the chambers, or for a passage from one chamber to another.

Within the walk and wall

Poole: Eze 41:10 - Between the chambers

Between the chambers that on one side joined to the temple, and were public repositories for offerings, and tithes, &c., and those other chambers, which were built on the wall of this inner court, and were lodgings for the priests, there was a void space, or pavement, in the open air, twenty cubits broad, and these round about on all sides of the court, and probably some rails, or balusters, or low wall round too before them enclosing this space.

Poole: Eze 41:11 - The doors

The doors of the lowest row opened into this void paved space. Beside the particular doors to each chamber, there were two, one on the north, where was a fair staircase, which did lead up to every story, and above these to the top of the temple. And so another like this on the south, excepting that this south staircase led not up to the top of all, as that north staircase did.

Poole: Eze 41:12 - Before // the separate place // At the end // toward the west, was seventy cubits broad // The wall of the building was five cubits thick // The length thereof ninety cubits

This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself.

Before or over against,

the separate place either the temple, with all the appendant treasury chambers; or the oracle, which was in the west end of the temple, and separate from the rest of the temple; or that twenty cubits’ space which was cut off from the chambers, an& the five cubits’ space before them by a breast wall, as some think.

At the end of either temple, oracle, or foresaid space,

toward the west, was seventy cubits broad: as men are not agreed about the fabric, and its dimensions, here intended to be measured, so they are as little agreed how to compute the measures; every one however makes out his account, whether the thing he measures be the right or mistaken. First, suppose the temple and the west part of it from north to south, thus: Twenty cubits the oracle, each side wall six cubits, breadth of chambers on each side four, the thickness of the out-walls of these chambers on both sides five cubits each, a void space of five cubits compassing the whole, and then the low or breast wall that enclosed this space five cubits thick on each side, making up the third ten, produce the seventy cubits. But they that think of a distinct building on the west end of the temple, do also in their method make out the account.

The wall of the building was five cubits thick: this seems to countenance their opinion who conceive a distinct building meant.

The length thereof ninety cubits: these proportions are easily laid together, which will make up the total, and agree with the temple, thus: Temple and oracle with their walls seventy cubits, porch eleven, and chambers and walls nine cubits. And who will have such a new structure here measured (which is more than was in the first temple fabric) will make all correspond to their hypothesis, and you may more easily object against another’ s than demonstrate your own guess. The best is, the error is not great if a man do err here.

Poole: Eze 41:13 - The house // An hundred cubits long // The separate place // The building

The house the whole temple, oracle, sanctuary, and porch, with the walls.

An hundred cubits long from east to west, thus: Stairs of the east porch or the thickness of the wall six cubits, the passage through the porch eleven, wall of the temple within the porch six cubits, the temple itself forty cubits, partition wall two cubits, the oracle twenty cubits, west wall thick six cubits, the chambers at bottom of the west wall four cubits, and the outer wall of the chambers five cubits.

The separate place: see Eze 41:12 .

The building on both the north and south side of the temple.

An hundred cubits long which is thus reckoned: The breadth of the temple twenty cubits, thickness of both walls twelve cubits, the bottom chambers on both sides eight cubits, the outer walls of these chambers five cubits a piece, the breadth of the place left out on each side five, on both sides ten, (i.e. five each,) and then the wideness between this on either side twenty cubits.

Poole: Eze 41:14 - Of the face // Of the separate place // An hundred cubits

Of the face the whole front of the house eastward, the prospect of it being to the east.

Of the separate place: this explains the other, say some, the house is the separate place; or else, as others, that other building on the west end of the temple, which was of equal dimensions with the temple.

An hundred cubits measuring from the north point along by the eastern front to the south point, or corner of the building or wall. The admeasuring the particulars I forbear; but since this side runs equal with the length of the whole from east to west, we need not doubt it is a hundred cubits.

Poole: Eze 41:15 - The building // The separate place // Which was behind it // Galleries // With the inner temple

The building possibly that of Eze 41:12,13 , or else the buildings of this court next to the temple, or else the west buildings behind the oracle, or the buildings of the utter court, of which in Eze 42:1,3,7,8 .

The separate place: see Eze 41:12 .

Which was behind it the buildings that were behind on the west side of that supposed range, of buildings, or else behind the temple.

Galleries either chambers, or porches, or balconies, places supported by pilasters, made for beauty and delight.

With the inner temple according to the measures of the temple, and its appendant buildings.

Poole: Eze 41:16 - The door posts // Windows // Galleries // Three stories // The door // ceiled with wood // From the ground up to the windows // Were covered

What are here recounted were all measured by the angel, and with the same reed or measure.

The door posts: see Eze 40:48,49 . It is likely he means the door posts of every gate, or porch in every court.

Windows: see Eze 40:16 .

Galleries: see Eze 41:5,15 .

Three stories see Eze 40:6,7 ; or parts, or buildings; temple, separate place, and on the court walls.

The door the singular for the plural number; the doors, which were

ceiled with wood were measured; this ceiling was with choicest wood.

From the ground up to the windows the height of these windows were taken too.

Were covered had lids or curtains to cover them, and lattices too, say some.

Poole: Eze 41:17

In the 15th verse the prophet began his catalogue, and continueth it through this verse, in which, in the gross, he tells us all above the doors, in every porch and gate to the very inner house, and all without, the buildings about the walls, were measured exactly, though we have neither the particular account of what these were, either things or measures.

Poole: Eze 41:18 - Made // Cherubims // Palm trees // Two faces

Now we are acquainted with the ornaments, the beautiful carving, which in all parts mentioned were to be seen.

Made beautified.

Cherubims generally taken for the portrait of angels, and framed to the beauty of young men with wings. Yet is the description of them very different in different places, as the curious observe in Ezekiel’ s vision, Eze 1 , Isaiah’ s vision, Isa 6 , John’ s vision, Re 4 , and in Solomon’ s temple.

Palm trees a very beautiful, upright tree, from a straight, well-grown body, spreading its head with large boughs and branches, which were used on occasions of joy, and were emblems of victory, Joh 12:13 Rev 7:9 . These were so engraven, that each palm tree was between two cherubs, and each cherub between two palm trees, and this ariseth from the different aspect, or numbering them.

Two faces curiously wrought on the same head, somewhat like a Janus’ s head; what these facts were the next verse tells us.

Poole: Eze 41:19 - The face of a man // of a young lion

The face of a man this one face, the other

of a young lion Now as to the aspect, it was thus; the cherub between two palm trees looked towards both trees, towards the one a man’ s face, towards the other a young lion’ s face, looked. And thus it was through the whole house round about, and from bottom to top, as Eze 41:20 .

Poole: Eze 41:20 - The door

The door: some think it is the great east gate; I think rather here, is an enallage, or change of number, door for doors, and that every porch was so beautified: see Eze 40:16,22,26,34 . These beautiful sculptures were round about the walls of the temple, and oracle too, though not expressed here.

Poole: Eze 41:21 - The face // The appearance of the one as the appearance of the other

The posts on each side of the gate or door, both of temple and oracle, were squared; not round, as some other were, and as the posts of the door of the tabernacle were, but of exact square.

The face the form of the door, or gate of the temple, was square, i.e. not arched, as the gates of our churches ordinarily are, but with a flat beam, or upper lintel, laid on the top of the posts, and so either made an equilateral square, or an oblong square.

The appearance of the one as the appearance of the other 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.

Poole: Eze 41:22 - The altar // Of wood // golden altar // The length thereof two cubits // The corners // the walls thereof // The table // Before the Lord

The altar of incense.

Of wood so the inward parts were made, and covered with gold, Exo 30:1-10 1Ki 6:20,22 ; and from this covering of gold it was called the

golden altar Three cubits high; one cubit higher than that in the tabernacle of Moses, Exo 30:2 .

The length thereof two cubits as long again as Moses’ s altar of incense in the tabernacle.

The corners the horns framed out of the four posts at each angle on the top of the altar. The sides of this altar, for it was made up on all sides, are here called

the walls thereof made of wood, but covered with gold.

The table some say it is spoken of this altar of incense; others say, the angel pointed him to the table of shew-bread, and spake of that.

Before the Lord in the temple, not in the oracle, or holy of holies: this incense altar was placed without the oracle, as appears from the priests’ offering incense at it by courses, whereas none but the high priest might enter into the holy of holies.

Poole: Eze 41:23

Each had one door, so there were two doors, and they were folding doors, or two-leaved doors.

Poole: Eze 41:24 - Made // On them // The temple // Cherubims // Thick planks // Upon // of the porch // Without

Made carved.

On them the doors of both temple and oracle.

The temple including the holy of holies also.

Cherubims: see Eze 41:18 .

Thick planks I suppose these were boards of more than ordinary thickness, which were fastened to the great beams, whose ends came out beyond the wall of the porch, and probably were laid so as to make a part of an arch over the entrance into the gate, as we see over some houses, and as sometimes under the balconies; and here also in these thicker planks, it is like, were some ornaments,

Upon or above the front

of the porch .

Without on the court-side of the porch, that part that looked outward.

Poole: Eze 41:25 - Narrow windows // Palm trees // On the one side and on the other side // Upon the side chambers // Thick planks

Narrow windows: see Eze 41:16 .

Palm trees: see Eze 41:18 .

On the one side and on the other side on the north and on the south side, as you enter in from east toward the west; thus the sides of the porch outward were garnished.

Upon the side chambers which were thirty in a row, and three stories high: see Eze 41:6 .

Thick planks alike carved and beautified, and alike strengthening and defending the places where they were used.

Poole: Eze 41:26

Ver. 26 .

Haydock: Eze 41:1 - The temple

The temple. This plan of a temple, which was here shewn to the prophet in a vision, partly had relation to the material temple, which was to be rebuilt: and partly, in a mystical sense, to the spiritual temple of God, the Church of Christ. (Challoner) ---

The description seems grander than Solomon's; and yet Zorobabel's temple was meaner than his. Hence this prophecy, and those of Aggeus and Zacharias, cannot be understood of it, but of the Church. (St. Jerome; St. Augustine, City of God xviii. 45.) (Worthington)

Haydock: Eze 41:3 - Front

Front, or door-posts. The temple was 20 cubits broad.

Haydock: Eze 41:5 - Four

Four. Herein it differed from Solomon's chambers, which were in breadth five, six, and seven cubits, in the three stories, respectively. (Calmet)

Haydock: Eze 41:6 - One by another // Twice

One by another, or one over another: literally, side to side, or side upon side. (Challoner) ---

The word side is here equivocal, like Hebrew tsela, sometimes denoting the boards, and at other times the apartments round the temple, except on the west, over against the sanctuary, which seems to be the case here. It is true, we shall not easily find sixty-six chambers. But the Hebrew, &c., have only thirty-three. (Calmet) ---

Villalpand rightly translated anterides, (ver. 5.) but here he substitutes trabes, "beams or thick planks," to make it agree with 3 Kings vi. 6., as if the same temple were meant. He also adopts the Vulgate bis. ---

Twice. Hebrew pehamim. Yet he afterwards places in his commentary, pedes, "thirty-three feet, that is twenty-two cubits," though feet are never used at all as a measure in Scripture. (Houbigant)

Haydock: Eze 41:7 - Broader // Midst

Broader, as the wall was not so thick. (Haydock) ---

Midst. The two staircases were round in the hollow of the wall, (Menochius) at the eastern end of the chambers. (Josephus) See 3 Kings. (Calmet)

Haydock: Eze 41:9 - House

House. Because these side-chambers were in the very walls of the temple all around: or it may also be rendered, (more agreeably to the Hebrew) so as to signify, that the thickness of the wall for the side-chambers within was the same as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits. (Challoner) ---

Protestants, "and that which was left, was the place of the side-chambers that were within." (Haydock) ---

To manifest a greater respect for God, the apartments of the priests were twenty-five cubits from the temple, (ver. 10.) and divided by a wall, which Josephus describes as three cubits high. (Antiquities viii. 2.) This wall was at the distance of five cubits from the temple. (Calmet)

Haydock: Eze 41:11 - Prayer

Prayer, or "separated;" munnach, (Haydock) the inner house, ver. 9.

Haydock: Eze 41:13 - Separate

Separate, different from that [in] ver. 9., (Calmet; Hebrew gizra. ; Haydock) between the temple and the priests' apartments, which it may also designate, (Calmet) unless it (Haydock) mean the temple itself, which was divided from the rest, (Menochius) and set aside for prayer, &c. (Haydock)

Haydock: Eze 41:15 - Galleries; Ethecas

Galleries; Ethecas, or as the more correct manuscripts of St. Jerome read, Ecthetas, seems to be formed from (Calmet) Hebrew athikim, (Haydock) which St. Jerome explains a balcony, portico, or gallery.

Haydock: Eze 41:16 - About // Windows

About. Thus he intimates the inner temple, which was covered with boards. ---

Windows. The temple was hidden so far by the chambers; or rather he measured (Calmet) "the ground and up to the windows, which were" shut up with lattices, affording light over the doors (Haydock) and apartments, fifteen cubits from the ground.

Haydock: Eze 41:18 - Two

Two. Before he describes them with four faces. But they varied, (Exodus xxv. 18.) or the other two might be against the wall. (Calmet) ---

The cherub signified "knowledge," and the palm-tree victory, to shew that man must be instructed with divine knowledge, and so fight for the victory. The face of man implied that Christ would suffer, and that of a lion announced that he would overcome all his enemies. (Worthington)

Haydock: Eze 41:21 - The threshold was four-square

The threshold was four-square. That is, the gate of the temple was four-square, and so placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within. (Challoner) ---

It was not an arch, though not a perfect square, 3 Kings vi. 34.

Haydock: Eze 41:22 - Table

Table, or altar of incense, larger than that of Moses, Exodus xxx. 1.

Haydock: Eze 41:23 - Sanctuary

Sanctuary. One folding door opened into it, the other into the temple.

Haydock: Eze 41:24 - Other

Other. It was not perhaps necessary to open the large door.

Haydock: Eze 41:26 - Sides

Sides, ( humerulis ) or pilasters. Hebrew, "on the shoulder of the porch, and on the sides of the house, and beams." (Calmet)

Gill: Eze 41:1 - Afterward he brought me to the temple // and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side // which was the breadth of the tabernacle

Afterward he brought me to the temple,.... Having measured the porch into it, its posts, and gate. This is the body of the building, which was the "frame" of a city first shown, the principal fabric; for hitherto he had been only measuring the outward and inner courts, and their gates, and what were in them; but now he is come to the house itself, called a temple; by which not only particular Gospel churches are called, 1Co 3:16, but the Gospel church state in general, Zec 6:12, and especially as in the latter day; so the Philadelphian church state, which represents the spiritual reign of Christ, or the glory of the latter day, is called the temple of my God, Rev 3:12, which will be a holy temple to the Lord where he will dwell in a gracious manner, and be worshipped in spirit and in truth; and here his glory will be seen; it will be built up of precious and costly stones, even living and lively ones; a spiritual house to offer up the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise: and, as in the material temple or holy place stood the candlestick and table of shewbread; here the light of the Gospel will burn clearly; and Christ the bread of life be held forth in the ordinance of the supper; where, as at a table, saints shall have intimate fellowship with him:

and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side these were the posts of the door of the temple, and stood on each side of it, on the north and south; and this was the thickness, six cubits or a reed each, three yards and a half; this was the frontispiece of the door of the palace of the King of kings:

which was the breadth of the tabernacle; the tabernacle of Moses; that is, these posts, or this frontispiece, were as broad as the whole tabernacle of Moses was; which had eight boards in the breadth, each board being a cubit and a half, made twelve cubits, just the breadth of these two posts, Exo 26:16, this shows how far superior the Gospel church is to the old synagogue; how larger is the one, and the entrance into it wider, than the other. Some understand by "the tabernacle" the upper lintel, of the same breadth with the posts; and was in a recurve, and as a covering to the door; so the Jewish commentators, and others that follow them.

Gill: Eze 41:2 - And the breadth of the door was ten cubits // and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side // and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits,.... The temple door: great care is taken to observe and give the dimensions of the doors and gates of various places; to put us in mind of Christ the door and gate into the church, and into fellowship with God: this was as broad again as the door of Solomon's temple; for that was but the fourth part of the wall of it, five cubits, 1Ki 6:1,

and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side; the side walls of the door, both on the north and south, were five cubits each; which, with the ten, the breadth of the door, made twenty; and is just the breadth of the temple or holy place afterwards given:

and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits; that is, the length of the temple from east to west, and the breadth of it from north to south, were of this measure; which exactly answers to the dimensions of Solomon's temple, a figure of the Gospel church, as this; see 1Ki 6:2.

Gill: Eze 41:3 - Then went he inward // and measured the post of the door two cubits // and the door six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits

Then went he inward,.... Through the temple or holy place he had measured, to the holy of holies:

and measured the post of the door two cubits; this was the door into the most holy place; there was one in Solomon's temple; but in the second temple there was none; but two rails instead of it, which were rent at the death of Christ; and two cubits was the thickness of the post, on which this door was shut:

and the door six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits; this door was a two leaved one; each leaf consisted of three cubits broad, and the post in the middle on which they shut one cubit broad, which made seven: though some think that the side walls of the door are meant, as in Eze 41:2, which were each seven cubits; and the breadth of the door, six cubits, made twenty cubits; which was the breadth of the most holy place, as answering to the breadth of the holy place, as in the next verse.

Gill: Eze 41:4 - So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits // and the breadth twenty cubits before the temple // and he said unto me, this is the most holy place

So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits,.... That is, of the most holy place, from east to west; which was the measure of it in Solomon's temple, 1Ki 6:20,

and the breadth twenty cubits before the temple: that is answerable or according to the breadth of the temple or holy place; which was also twenty cubits in breadth: this stood at the west end of it, and was equal in breadth to it; see 1Ki 6:2,

and he said unto me, this is the most holy place; the divine Person in human form said to the prophet, take notice of this building; this answers to the most holy place in the temple. This was an emblem of the most holy and perfect state of the church on earth; it represents the New Jerusalem church state, that holy city, and into which nothing shall enter that defiles; and, as in the most holy place, the divine Shechaniah or majesty of God dwelt; so here will dwell in person the God-man and Mediator, the head of the church, our Lord Jesus; whose tabernacle will now be with men, in this perfect state, raised from the dead, and he will dwell among them: and as this most holy place in its dimensions is a foursquare, so is the holy city described; denoting its stability and perfection; see Rev 21:2.

Gill: Eze 41:5 - After he measured the wall of the house six cubits // and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side

After he measured the wall of the house six cubits,.... Or a reed, three yards and a half thick: this was the wall of the holy of holies, or which divided that from the holy place, and was not in the second temple; or rather the wall of the temple, the whole house or building, both of the holy place, and of the most holy, which were contiguous: such a strong wall is the Lord to his church, and especially will be in the latter day, when salvation will be for walls and bulwarks against all enemies, and to preserve from all hurt and danger, Isa 26:1, the New Jerusalem also will have a wall great and high, and made of a precious stone, Rev 21:12,

and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side; or, "of every rib" ^y; as ribs are to the body, so were these side chambers or buildings to the fabric, as Ben Melech observes, who interprets them of beams: adjoining to the above wall were chambers all around the holy place and the most holy on each side, north and south; for there could be none on the east, that being the entrance into the holy, and so into the most holy place; and the floor of these chambers were four cubits, or two yards and a foot broad; that is, those of the lower storey: these were for the priests, where they lodged, and laid up and ate their most holy things, and put their garments in which they ministered; see Eze 42:13, and design, as the chambers everywhere do, particular congregated churches; where such as are made priests to God by Christ have a place, and communion with God in holy things; and appear in the righteousness of Christ, and in the beauties of holiness.

Gill: Eze 41:6 - And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order // and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house

And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order,.... There were three stories of them, and thirty in every storey, in all ninety; there were such chambers round about Solomon's temple, and so many stories of them, though their number is not expressed, 1Ki 6:5, but Josephus ^z says they were thirty, and one above another, three stories of them, as here. Some think twelve were on the north side, twelve on the south, and six on the west; or fifteen on the north, and fifteen on the south. The Misnic doctors ^a say there were thirty eight in the second temple, fifteen on the north side, fifteen on the south, and eight on the west. The Targum is,

"the chambers were chamber over chamber thirty three, eleven in a row;''

and so some ^b understand it, that they were in all but thirty three, eleven in the first storey, as many in the second, and the same number in the third; and place them four in the north, four in the south, and three in the west, so Starckius; but the first account seems best. This denotes the number of churches in Gospel times, especially in the latter day; when there will be large conversions, and room enough for all the converts: and as there are many mansions in heaven for all the saints; so there will be room enough in the New Jerusalem, the more perfect state of the church on earth, to hold the whole palm bearing company, whose number no man can number; and all the nations of them that are saved, who will walk in the light of it, Rev 7:9,

and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house; the beams of the floors of those side chambers rested indeed upon the wall of the house which was built for them; but were not inserted into it, or laid in it, as we see in some buildings; but there were projections or buttresses in the wall, or what are called narrowed rests, 1Ki 6:6 or rebatements of the breadth of a cubit, on which they were laid and rested; and so it was in the upper stories, as in the lowermost; there being an abatement of a cubit in the thickness of the wall in each storey, as in the following verse. This shows the firmness of this spiritual building resting upon such a wall and such buttresses as God himself is to it; See Gill on Eze 41:5.

Gill: Eze 41:7 - And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers // for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house // therefore the breadth of the house was still upward // and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst

And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers,.... These chambers, as they rose up in stories one above another, were larger and larger; those in the middlemost storey were larger than those in the lower storey by a cubit; so much being taken out of the thickness of the wall, to make the rests or rebatements for the beams of the floor to rest upon, by which so much was gained in breadth for the chambers; and those in the upper storey, for the same reason, were a cubit broader than those in the middle, and two cubits broader than the lowermost; the floor of the first and lower storey was four cubits broad, Eze 41:5 the floor of the second five cubits; and the floor of the third or uppermost six cubits. The wall of the temple at the bottom was six cubits thick, Eze 41:5, at the middlemost storey five cubits; and at the uppermost four: and all this may denote the enlargement of the church of Christ, as it comes nearer the heavenly state; the present state of the church may be signified by the lower storey, where the chambers are narrowest; the state of the church in the latter day glory, or spiritual reign of Christ, by the middlemost, when it will be enlarged; its converts being very numerous, Isa 49:19 and the New Jerusalem church state by the uppermost storey; which city or state will be very large, and next to heaven, or the ultimate glory; see Rev 21:16. The "winding" that went upwards to the side chambers were winding stairs, which went up from one storey to another, higher and higher; see 1Ki 6:8. The Misnic doctors say ^c, that in the second temple these winding stairs went from one side of the temple to the other, from the north east to the northwest; by which they went up to the roofs of these chambers and to the upper room over the sanctuary. These may signify the various afflictions and tribulations, trials and exercises, in which the Lord leads his people, and by which the churches of Christ pass from one state to another:

for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: not on the outside, but within; properly round about the chambers, which are here called the house:

therefore the breadth of the house was still upward; became broader and broader, as it rose up higher and higher:

and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst; from being only four cubits broad in the lowest storey, it became five cubits in the middlemost, and from thence six cubits in the highest.

Gill: Eze 41:8 - I saw also the height of the house round about // the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits

I saw also the height of the house round about,.... Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it:

the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits; not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four cubits broad, Eze 41:5, nor of the middlemost, which was five; but of the uppermost, which was six; and these were cubits of the largest size, a hand's breadth larger than the common cubit, and made one full reed, or three yards and a half; see Eze 40:5, these foundations signify the same as the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; and which are no other than the one foundation Christ, ministerially laid by his twelve apostles; and who is the only foundation of his church and people, and is a sure one, Rev 21:14.

Gill: Eze 41:9 - The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits // and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits,.... This is the outward wall of the chambers, north and south, which was five cubits thick, made of stone; See Gill on Eze 41:5,

and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within; this was a void space, not built upon, which was before the chambers that stood within it; and was a space to walk in for those that dwelt in the chambers, or to go in from chamber to chamber; which also was five cubits in breadth, as appears from the next verse. This may denote the communion of churches, and the members of them one with another.

Gill: Eze 41:10 - And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits // round about the house on every side

And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits,.... Not the side chambers before mentioned, as if there was the space of twenty cubits between each chamber; for another word is used; more probably the meaning is, that between the side chambers, or the void space before them of five cubits, and the chambers which were in the court facing them, was such a wideness of twenty cubits:

round about the house on every side; on all sides of the temple, where the above chambers were, west, north, and south.

Gill: Eze 41:11 - And the doors of the side chambers were towards the place that was left // one door toward the north, and another door toward the south // and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about

And the doors of the side chambers were towards the place that was left,.... These opened to the void space before them; that is, those of the lower storey; the others must open to the winding staircase that led down to it:

one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; which is not to be understood as if each chamber had two doors; but either of the two doors, which opened at the top of the staircase to the north and south; or of the doors of those chambers, which were on the north, and opened towards it; and of those that were on the south, that opened to that: indeed the Misnic doctors say ^d that each chamber had three doors; one to the chamber on the right; another to the chamber on the left; and a third to the upper chamber: and in the north east corner were five doors; one to the chamber on the right; and one to the upper chamber; a third to the winding stairs; a fourth to the little gate; and the fifth to the temple; these signify the free entrance of men into the churches of Christ in the latter day, whose gates shall be opened to let in the righteous nation; and shall stand open continually, that the forces of the Gentiles and their kings may be brought, Isa 26:2 and in the New Jerusalem there are gates, east, west, north, and south, even twelve of them, and at them twelve angels; and which gates shall not be shut day nor night, Rev 21:12,

and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about; the void space that was left before the side chambers; see Eze 41:9.

Gill: Eze 41:12 - Now the building that was before the separate place // at the end toward the west // it was seventy cubits broad // and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about // and the length thereof ninety cubits

Now the building that was before the separate place,.... The "separate place" is the holy of holies, which was separated by a vail under the second temple, and by a wall as in this, and the first from the holy place: "before or over against" which was a building, as it is rendered, Eze 41:15, a new building, not before taken notice of: and it was situated

at the end toward the west: or "sea" ^e, the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan. The meaning is, that this building was to the west of the temple, at which end stood the holy of holies, and this near to that: what building is here meant is not easy to say, there being nothing in the first or second temple which answered to it: it seems to be a new building; and what the mystical sense of it is cannot be easily guessed at. Cocceius thinks, that as the holy of holies signifies the heavenly or more perfect state of the church on earth, this, being over against it, or behind it, as in Eze 41:15, may design heaven itself, the happiness and glory of the saints treasured up and reserved there:

it was seventy cubits broad; Jerom seems to have the same mystical sense in view; since he observes, that after labours and perils, and the floods and shipwrecks of this world for seventy years, we come to enjoy the eternal rest:

and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about; which may answer to the vast gulf fixed between the godly in heaven, and the wicked in hell; so that there is no going the one to the other, Luk 16:26,

and the length thereof ninety cubits; there are no outgoings to this building, as Hafenrefferus ^f, a German divine, observes; so that those that are brought into it shall ever remain in it, which is the case of the saints in heaven.

Gill: Eze 41:13 - So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long // and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long,.... The whole temple, the parts of which he had measured; and this is the sum total:

and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; these are the several parts of the house or temple: the "separate place", the holy of holies, the building, the sanctuary or holy place; which, with the walls thereof, made a hundred cubits in length from east to west, thus; the thickness of the wall of the east porch, six cubits; the passage through the porch, eleven cubits; the wall between the porch and the temple, six cubits; the temple or holy place, forty cubits; the wall between that and the most holy place, two cubits; the holiest of all, twenty cubits; the thickness of the west wall, six cubits; the chambers at the end of it, four cubits; and the outer wall of them, five cubits; in all a hundred cubits: for this cannot be understood of the separate place, and the building before it, or rather behind it; since the separate place, or holiest of all, was twenty cubits, and the building ninety cubits; besides the thickness of each wall, five cubits a piece; in all a hundred and twenty.

Gill: Eze 41:14 - Also the breadth of the face of the house, and the separate place toward the east // an hundred cubits

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and the separate place toward the east,.... The whole front of the temple, the holy and most holy place, which looked to the east: and was measured from north to south,

an hundred cubits: which some reckon thus; the breadth of the temple twenty cubits; the thickness of the outward walls, twelve cubits; the side chambers, eight cubits; the walls of these chambers, five cubits on each side: the breadth of the void space, five cubits on each side; and twenty cubits round about the house; so that the length and breadth of this structure was the same, and made a perfect foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem is said to be, Rev 21:16.

Gill: Eze 41:15 - And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place // which was behind it // and the galleries thereof on the one side, and on the other side, an hundred cubits // with the inner temple, and the porches of the court

And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place,.... Which was ninety cubits, as appears from Eze 41:12, when measured by itself:

which was behind it; that is, behind the separate place, or holiest of all, at the back of it, at the west end. Noldius ^g renders the words, "he measured the length of the building before the separate place, and behind it"; or its back part, as the Syriac, and interprets it thus; that he measured the building or the porch which was before the temple, that is to the north; and the porch opposite to it, that is to the south: this "building" behind it, with the Jews ^h, is the same with Bethchaliphoth ⁱ, or the house of knives, which the priests used in sacrificing:

and the galleries thereof on the one side, and on the other side, an hundred cubits; as the above is the length of this building from east to west, this is the breadth of it from north to south; the breadth of the building itself was seventy cubits, Eze 41:12, and the galleries on the north and south sides of it, and the thickness of the walls, which were five cubits each, made thirty more; in all a hundred cubits; which is equal to the breadth of the temple, as in the preceding verse: these galleries, or balconies, or porticos, supported by pilasters, design places for the saints to walk in, converse, and commune with one another; and where Christ the King of saints is held forth, and seen in his beauty and glory; see Zec 3:7,

with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; or, "and the inner temple" ^k, &c. that is, and he also measured the inner temple or holy of holies, with all the porches, chambers, and their walls, and with all the spaces and appendages to it, which were of the same measure; see Eze 41:15.

Gill: Eze 41:16 - The door posts and the narrow windows // and the galleries round about on their three stories // over against the door, cieled with wood round about // and from the ground up to the windows // and the windows were covered

The door posts and the narrow windows,.... Of the inner temple or holy of holies; for this is what is last mentioned; of the door posts of it, see Eze 41:3, in the holy of holies, both in Moses's tabernacle, and Solomon's temple, were no windows; Jehovah dwelt in thick darkness, 1Ki 8:12, but in this inner temple, or the more perfect state of the church on earth, there will be much light: these windows are said to be "narrow", that is, without, but broad within; and let in a great deal of light, which, though not discerned by those without, yet comfortably enjoyed by those within; and will be so great, that there will be no need of the sun or moon; Christ the Lamb will be the light of this state; and the nations of the saved and their kings will walk in the light of it, Rev 21:23,

and the galleries round about on their three stories; these seem to be the same with the side chambers, which were three storey high, and were on the three sides of the house, west, north, and south; see Eze 41:6,

over against the door, cieled with wood round about: with cedar wood, as the Targum: or, "answerable were the doors cieled with wood" ^l; door, for doors; that is, the doors of these side chambers, which answered to one another, were lined with cedar wood; all which doors, door posts, windows, and galleries, were severally measured:

and from the ground up to the windows; from the bottom of the floor of the most holy place up to the windows, which were above the third storey of the side chambers, he measured also:

and the windows were covered; either by the jetting out of the side chambers, so that they could not well be seen in the courts below; or they were lattice windows with such small holes as at a distance were scarcely discernible; or were covered with curtains within; or being very narrow on the outside, though broad within, looked as if they were covered; denoting how impenetrable the glories of this state are to those that are without, Rev 22:15.

Gill: Eze 41:17 - To that above the door, even unto the inner house // and by all the wall round about within and without

To that above the door, even unto the inner house,.... The meaning is, either there were such windows as before described above the door of the eastern gate, that led into the holiest of all, and even unto the inner house, or holy of holies: and without; and to all the side, chambers that were built without it:

and by all the wall round about within and without; both within the holy place, and without, in the places adjoining to it, on all sides, west, north, and south; or all were cieled with cedar wood, that it might be more capable of being ornamented, either with gold, or with the decorations mentioned in the following verses: or the sense is, that all these were measured exactly: for it follows, "by measure"; or to all these "were measures" ^m; the dimensions were taken; every thing in the Gospel church state, whether in its less or more perfect state, will be all according to rule and measure.

Gill: Eze 41:18 - And it was made with cherubim and palm trees // so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub // and every cherub had two faces

And it was made with cherubim and palm trees,.... That is, all the wall of the house round about was ornamented with these, even both of the holy and of the most holy place; with these the curtains of Moses's tabernacle, and the vail that divided between the holy and the most holy place, were decorated; as also the walls, both of the sanctuary and oracle, in Solomon's temple, Exo 26:1. The former, according to the commonly received notion, were an emblem of angels; the latter of true believers, or holy upright men: why these are called palm trees; see Gill on Eze 40:16,

so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; these were so placed all around, that there was first a cherub, next a palm tree, and then a cherub again, and so on; and if angels and saints are meant, and that notion could be supported, which some have given into, that the number of men redeemed by Christ is the same with that of the angels that fell, and their places are filled up by them; this would serve to illustrate it, particularly as these were all around the walls of the most holy place; a type of heaven, as here of the New Jerusalem state; that as there was a cherub and a palm tree, a cherub and a palm tree, throughout all the house, so an angel and a saint, an angel and a saint, throughout all the mansions in the holy city, and in the heavenly glory:

and every cherub had two faces: which, by what follows, were the faces of a man, and of a lion. The "cherubim" Ezekiel saw in his first vision had four faces, Eze 1:10 and so these must be supposed to have, though only two were seen; because these were carved or painted on the walls, so that the hindmost faces, those of the ox and eagle, could not be perceived.

Gill: Eze 41:19 - So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side // towards the palm tree // and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side // it was made through all the house round about

So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side,.... The cherubim in this verse are the same with the living creatures this prophet saw by the river Chebar, and which he knew to be the cherubim, Eze 10:20 and the same with John's four beasts or living creatures in Rev 4:7 and he being the last that wrote concerning them, gives the clearest account of them; and by which the best judgment may be formed about them; and from which it appears that they are men redeemed by the blood of Christ; and as they are on the one hand distinguished from angels, so on the other from the four and twenty elders, or common Christians, Rev 4:8 and plainly design the ministers of the word, and who are everywhere to be understood by them: their having the face of a man shows they are men, and have to do with men, and should be humane, kind, and tender, knowing and understanding as men; See Gill on Eze 1:10, and their face being

towards the palm tree shows that they should be upright and sincere in their doctrine, ministry, and conversation; that they should bear all weights and pressures laid upon them patiently; and rise up heavenwards in their affections and desires, and in their expectation of help and assistance in their work, and triumph in Christ, through whom they are conquerors; the palm tree being an emblem of these things:

and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side; this face of the cherubim denotes the strength of Gospel ministers they have from Christ to do their work, defend the Gospel, withstand gainsayers, and support the weak, and bear with their infirmities; as also their boldness, courage, and intrepidity, in preaching the Gospel of Christ without fear of men; of this their face, and the other two not mentioned here; see Gill on Eze 1:10,

it was made through all the house round about; that is, the cherubim and palm trees were carved or portrayed in the form and order here described throughout the holy of holies, as Jarchi interprets the house; and signifies that Gospel ministers shall have a place, and peculiar honour done them, in the New Jerusalem state, who will be particularly rewarded then, Rev 11:18.

Gill: Eze 41:20 - From the ground unto above the door // and on the wall of the temple

From the ground unto above the door,.... From the floor of the holy of holies to above the door of it to the east, where was the entrance into it; or from thence to the cieling, as the Septuagint version: "were cherubim and palm trees made"; either in rows one above another, quite up to the place mentioned; or they were made so large, that each cherub and palm tree reached from the ground to above the door, or to the cieling:

and on the wall of the temple: that is, they were not only thus placed in the holiest of all; but in the temple, or holy place on the wall of it all around; and shows, that in the state of the church in the latter day, which this part of the building represents more especially, will be great numbers of Gospel ministers, who will faithfully and uprightly preach it to men; see Dan 12:4.

Gill: Eze 41:21 - The posts of the temple were squared // and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other

The posts of the temple were squared,.... Or, were "foursquare" ⁿ; the two posts on each side the door, the lintel and the threshold, made a square; the posts themselves were not round, as pillars, but flat and square; and the upper part was not arched, as in some buildings, but square. Jarchi says he had heard that the posts of Solomon's temple were foursquare; but that is not certain; however, these were. The Vulgate Latin version renders it "four cornered"; as doors formerly were: this was the ancient way of building, as Philander ^o observes; almost everything in this wonderful building was foursquare; denoting the firmness, stability, and perfection of all things in it:

and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other; that is, the front of the holy of holies was like that of the temple; they both had the same appearance, though one was larger than another. The posts of the one were squared, even as the posts of the other; showing that the same is the way of entrance into the Gospel church and into the New Jerusalem church state, and even into the heavenly glory, which is Christ; and, whether in the less or more perfect state of the church on earth, there are the same precious faith, and love, and communion, though different degrees. The Targum is,

"and the face of the house of the propitiatory; and its appearance as the appearance of its glory;''

which Jarchi interprets, as the appearance of the throne of glory, seen by the prophet at the river Chebar, Eze 1:26.

Gill: Eze 41:22 - The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits // and the breadth two cubits // and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood // and he said unto me, this is the table that is before the Lord // bread of faces

The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits,.... This was the altar of incense, and was typical of Christ in his intercession and mediation. It was made of "wood"; that in the tabernacle of Moses was of shittim wood, a kind of cedar; and that in Solomon's temple was of cedar, Exo 30:1 and may signify the human nature of Christ, in which he mediates and intercedes; which is excellent as the cedars: fair and beautiful, strong, durable, and incorruptible: though its original is of the earth, as wood: or was made of a woman; of the earth, earthly; but produced without sin. This altar, both in the tabernacle and temple, was covered with gold; as it was fit it should be with some hard substance that would bear incense to be burned on it; and therefore was called the golden altar, Exo 30:3 and so the altar at which our Lord officiates as Mediator and Intercessor is called a golden one, Rev 8:3, which may denote the deity of Christ, that gives virtue to his mediation; or the glorification of his human nature in heaven, in which he ministers; and also the preciousness of his intercession, and the duration of it. The incense burnt on this altar may signify both the mediation of Christ, which is pure and holy, though for sinners; large and frequent, continually made, and very fragrant and acceptable; and the prayers of the saints which are offered up on this altar, which sanctifies them; and through the much incense, which perfumes them, whereby they ascend up to God, and are sweet odours to him, being fragrant and fervent, pure and holy. This altar in the tabernacle of Moses, and probably in the temple of Solomon, though its dimensions there are not given, was foursquare, Exo 30:2 very likely so was this; and indeed the Septuagint version adds,

and the breadth two cubits; which, being the same with its length, made it foursquare; and so may point at the firmness, unchangeableness and perfection of this part of Christ's priesthood, his intercession, which is true of the whole of it, Heb 7:19 and it may be observed, that the altar here was a cubit longer, and a cubit broader, as well as a cubit higher, than the Mosaic one, Exo 30:2. Kimchi says this altar was not like to that which Moses or Solomon, or the children of the captivity, made; it was larger than any of them; which shows that the intercession of Christ our high priest is larger and more extensive than that of the priests under the law; they offered incense only for the people of Israel: but Christ, as he is the propitiation, so the advocate for Gentiles, as well as Jews; though not for the whole world of men, yet for the world of the elect; and of all blessings of grace and glory for them, 1Jo 2:1 and, moreover, that under the Gospel dispensation there would be more praying souls, and more use made of the Mediator, of his name, blood, righteousness, sacrifice, and intercession; and a greater spirit of grace and supplication poured out, especially in the latter day; hence we read of Christ's much incense, Joh 16:23,

and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood; that is, the horns that were at the four corners of it; and the top of it, which was its length and breadth; and the sides of it, called its walls, were all of wood, though covered with gold. The mystical sense of which has been given; only it may be observed, that the four corners or horns of it may denote the strength of Christ's intercession; and to which men have recourse, and lay hold on for their relief, even from all parts of the world, east, west, north, and south:

and he said unto me, this is the table that is before the Lord; that is, either the altar before described is the table before the Lord, which he has spread, and where his people feed in his presence; the intercession of Christ being a feast to the faith of saints: or it may be, that the divine guide of the prophet, turning himself to the right hand of the altar, pointed to the table of shewbread, which stood in the same place; and said this or that which stands yonder is the table before the Lord; and which also was typical of Christ, the true bread that comes down from heaven, who is the food of his people; for quality, the finest of the wheat; for quantity, enough and to spare; for savour, such as gracious souls desire always to have; for duration, continual bread, set forth by priests, and only eaten by them; and, like that,

bread of faces, as the shewbread is called ^p; denoting the intercession of Christ, the Angel of God's presence; and who always appears in the presence of God for his people, bearing on him the names of the children of Israel, to which the twelve shewbread loaves answered. The "table" on which they were set signifies the communion saints have with Christ in his word and ordinances; which are called a feast, of which Christ is the sum and substance; and where, as at a table, he sits and favours them with fellowship with himself; see Pro 9:2 The Jews ^q have an observation upon this text, that it begins with an altar, and ends with a table; and further observe, that, while the temple stood, the altar atoned for a man, but now a man's table atones for him: but this is not a man's table, but the Lord's table; and Christ the sacrifice held forth on this table does indeed atone for a man.

Gill: Eze 41:23 - And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. Or the house of propitiatory, as the Targum; that is, the most holy place; not two doors apiece, but each had one door, which made two; the door of the temple was ten cubits broad, and the door of the most holy place six cubits, Eze 41:2 showing the door is wider, and more enter into the outward visible church, or less perfect state, even some bad, as well as good, than the door of the Jerusalem church state, or heavenly glory, into which fewer enter.

Gill: Eze 41:24 - And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves // two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door

And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves,.... Each of these doors had two leaves, which met in a middle post, and might be opened either singly or together, as occasion required; See Gill on Eze 40:48,

two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door; two for the door of the temple, and two for the door of the most holy place; or each leaf of both doors had two foldings; as there were two leaves in a door, there were two foldings in every leaf; so that the door might be opened wider or narrower, as was thought fit; denoting the greater number of persons let in, and the greater light and knowledge had, at one time than at another; see 1Ki 6:31.

Gill: Eze 41:25 - And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple // cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls // and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without // the thick piece of wood in the front of the porch without

And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,.... Both of the holy, and the most holy place:

cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; the doors of both places had the same decorations as the walls of each; See Gill on Eze 41:18; See Gill on Eze 41:19; See Gill on Eze 41:20; and so it was in Solomon's temple, 1Ki 6:32, a cherub and a palm tree on each leaf, or on each folding of a leaf, according as it would admit of:

and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without; on the outward front of the porch were some thick wainscot boards, which projected as a cover to the entrance into it; or, as it may be rendered, also on

the thick piece of wood in the front of the porch without ^r; which, as Starckius thinks, was a large wooden bar, which shut and held in the folding leaves of the door; and on this, or these thick planks, were cherubim and palm trees.

Gill: Eze 41:26 - And there were narrow windows // and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch // and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks

And there were narrow windows,.... See Eze 41:16,

and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; upon the posts that were on each side the porch, north and south; Eze 40:16,

and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks; that is, there were palm trees upon the side chambers, which were in number thirty, Eze 41:6 and upon the planks also; every part of this fabric within and without were ornamented.