Ezekiel 41

1 # vv 21, 23 ; Ezek 40.2, 3, 9, 17Then he brought me to the nave and measured the posts; on each side six cubits was the depth of the posts.#41.1 Compare Gk: Heb tent 2#1 Kings 6.2, 17; 2 Chr 3.3The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. He measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits. 3#v 1; Ezek 40.16Then he went into the inner room and measured the posts of the entrance, two cubits, and the width of the entrance, six cubits, and the sidewalls#41.3 Gk: Heb width of the entrance, seven cubits. 4#1 Kings 6.20; 2 Chr 3.8He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

5Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. 6#1 Kings 6.5, 6The side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets#41.6 Gk: Heb they entered all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7#1 Kings 6.8The passageway#41.7 Cn: Heb it was surrounded of the side chambers widened from story to story, for the structure was supplied with a stairway all around the temple. For this reason the structure became wider from story to story. One ascended from the bottom story to the uppermost story by way of the middle one. 8#Ezek 40.5I saw also that the temple was on a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits high. 9#v 11The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and the free space between the side chambers of the temple 10#Ezek 40.17and the chambers of the court was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11#v 9The side chambers opened onto the area left free, one door toward the north and another door toward the south, and the width of the part that was left free was five cubits all around.

12 # vv 13–15 ; Ezek 42.1The building that was facing the temple yard on the west side was seventy cubits deep, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around and its width ninety cubits.

13 # vv 13–15 ; Ezek 40.47Then he measured the temple, one hundred cubits deep, and the yard and the building with its walls, one hundred cubits deep, 14#Ezek 40.47also the width of the east front of the temple and the yard, one hundred cubits.

15 # v 25 ; Ezek 40.6; 42.1, 10, 13Then he measured the width of the building facing the yard at the west, together with its galleries#41.15 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain on either side, one hundred cubits.

The nave of the temple’s interior and the outer#41.15 Gk: Heb of the court vestibule 16#vv 15, 25, 26; 1 Kings 6.15; Ezek 40.16; 42.3were paneled,#41.16 Gk: Heb the thresholds and all around all three had windows with recessed#41.16 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain frames. Facing the threshold, the temple was paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered). 17On the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside and on all the walls all around in the inner room and the nave there was a pattern.#41.17 Heb measures 18#1 Kings 6.29; 7.36; 2 Chr 3.5; Ezek 40.16It was formed of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces: 19#Ezek 1.10; 10.14a human face turned toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion turned toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around; 20from the floor to the area above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall.#41.20 Cn: Heb and the wall

21 # v 1 ; 1 Kings 6.33; Ezek 40.9, 14, 16The doorposts of the nave were square. In front of the holy place was something resembling 22#Ex 30.1, 8; Ezek 44.16; Mal 1.7, 12; Rev 8.3an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits wide;#41.22 Gk: Heb lacks two cubits wide its corners, its base,#41.22 Gk: Heb length and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that stands before the Lord.” 23#vv 1, 4; 1 Kings 6.31–35The nave and the holy place had each a double door. 24The doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door. 25On the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls, and there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. 26#v 16; Ezek 40.9, 16, 48And there were recessed windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule.#41.26 Cn: Heb vestibule. And the side chambers of the temple and the canopies

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