Teks -- Ezekiel 40:22 (NET)

40:22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.

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

Wesley: Eze 40:22 - Before them

Within the steps or gate.

JFB: Eze 40:20-27

The different approaches corresponded in plan. In the case of these two other gates, however, no mention is made of a building with thirty chambers such as was found on the east side. Only one was needed, and it was assigned to the east as being the sacred quarter, and that most conveniently situated for the officiating priests.

TSK: Eze 40:22 - palm trees // and they // before them

palm trees : Eze 40:16, Eze 40:31, Eze 40:37; 1Ki 6:29, 1Ki 6:32, 1Ki 6:35, 1Ki 7:36; 2Ch 3:5; Rev 7:9

and they : Eze 40:6, Eze 40:26, Eze 40:31, Eze 40:34, Eze 40:37, Eze 40:49; Heb 6:1

before them : Or, ""suitable to them,""that is, to the arches of the east gate. The north gate into the outward court, and every thing belonging to it, were exactly the same as the east gate.

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

Poole: Eze 40:22 - By seven steps // The arches thereof // Before them

See Eze 40:16 .

By seven steps: it is not said what number of stairs they went up to the east gate, but by this if appears they were seven steps in number, and it is said by some the form was semi-circular.

The arches thereof of this portico, the curious vaulted roof.

Before them within, or more inward than the steps or gate.

Gill: Eze 40:22 - And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east // and they went up unto it by seven steps // and the arches thereof were before them

And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east,.... Eze 40:14, signifying that the light of the churches, their privileges, and flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in one part of the world, so in another; see Isa 52:8,

and they went up unto it by seven steps; or stairs, Eze 40:6, the number of them is not there mentioned as here, but the same in both; See Gill on Eze 40:6,

and the arches thereof were before them; the steps; or "within" them, as the Septuagint; the steps led to the arches of the gate, or to the porch of it, which were more inward.