Teks -- Ezekiel 40:49 (NET)

40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet and the width 19¼ feet; steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

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

JFB: Eze 40:48-49

These two verses belong to the forty-first chapter, which treats of the temple itself.

JFB: Eze 40:49 - twenty . . . eleven cubits

In Solomon's temple (1Ki 6:3) "twenty . . . ten cubits." The breadth perhaps was ten and a half; 1Ki 6:3 designates the number by the lesser next round number, "ten"; Ezekiel here, by the larger number, "eleven" [MENOCHIUS]. The Septuagint reads "twelve."

JFB: Eze 40:49 - he brought me by the steps

They were ten in number [Septuagint].

Clarke: Eze 40:49 - By the steps

By the steps - This was a flight of steps that led to the temple; there were eight steps in each flight. See YY in the plan.

TSK: Eze 40:49 - The steps // pillars

The steps : This was a flight of steps which led from the inner court into the temple. Eze 40:31, Eze 40:34, Eze 40:37

pillars : 1Ki 7:15-21; 2Ch 3:17; Jer 52:17-23; Rev 3:12

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

Poole: Eze 40:49 - There were pillars

Though learned men dispute the position of the length, whether from east to west, or from north to south, express word determines the dimensions of this length and breadth. The steps : eight, say some, others eleven, and some say ten, others say twelve; but most say eight.

There were pillars: so soon as he was come into the porch, he saw two pillars, that stood off from the side walls, not joined to them, as the posts were, much like Jachin and Boaz in Solomon’ s temple.

Haydock: Eze 40:49 - Eleven // Eight // Pillars

Eleven. 3 Kings vi., says ten. The exact breadth was ten and a half, (Villalpand; Tirinus) or what the pavement covered is there specified according to some. Roman Septuagint has "twelve." But the edition of Basil reads more correctly, ten. (Calmet) ---

Yet both ten and eleven may be right, if this temple be different. (Haydock) ---

Eight. Hebrew seems corrupt, a being substituted for a. "They mounted by ten steps," as the Septuagint read. Aquila has eleven; Symmachus [has] eight. ---

Pillars of brass, 3 Kings vii. 15. (Calmet) ---

As they are not measured, they were like Solomon's. (Worthington)

Gill: Eze 40:49 - The length of the porch was twenty cubits // and the breadth eleven cubits // and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it; as there was // And there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side

The length of the porch was twenty cubits,.... From east to west; from the first gate of it to the last; which led directly into the house, or temple:

and the breadth eleven cubits; which may be thus accounted for; two cubits apiece being allowed for each post, and three for each leaf of the door that were hung upon them, and one for the upright post in the middle on which they shut; in all eleven:

and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it; as there was an ascent of seven steps to the several gates that led into the outward court; and another of eight steps, which led from that to the gates of the inner court; so there was an ascent from the inner court to the porch of the house, or temple; but how many steps there were is not said. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read ten steps; and the Vulgate Latin version eight steps. According to the Misnah ^w, there were twelve in the second temple; so say Jarchi and Kimchi, with whom Josephus ^x agrees. Cocceius thinks there could not be more than two, since the ground of the inward court and temple were continued; but as their number is not given, a determination cannot be made; only it may be observed, that the saints' progress in the knowledge of Christ, and of divine things, and in faith and holiness, is gradual.

And there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side; one on the north side, and the other on the south, somewhat like the two pillars of Jachin and Boaz, in Solomon's temple; which some apply to the ordinances of the Gospel saints partake of at their entrance into the Gospel church; but rather they are an emblem of Christ, the supporter of his church, and of all those that aright enter into it; and who, through his grace and strength, become pillars there also, Rev 3:12, he is their Jachin, who establishes them on himself, the sure foundation; and their Boaz, in whom their strength is, and from whom they have it to exercise grace, discharge duty, and persevere to the end.