Ezekiel 41:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10-1/2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10 1/2 feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was seven feet.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next, he measured the Temple walls at six cubits high and the width of the side chambers at four cubits around all four sides of the Temple.

NET Bible (©2006)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Next, the man measured the temple wall. It was 101/2 feet wide. The width of each side room around the temple was 7 feet.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
Then 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Darby Bible Translation
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

English Revised Version
Then 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round the house on every side.

World English Bible
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the wall of the house six cubits, and the breadth of the side-chamber four cubits, all round the house round about.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-26 After the prophet had observed the courts, he was brought to the temple. If we attend to instructions in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 5-11. - The wall and side buildings. Verse 5. - The measuring commenced with the wall of the house, i.e. with the outer wall, which, beginning at the pillars (ver. 1), enclosed the temple on its south, west, and north sides. Its great thickness, six cubits, corresponded with and even surpassed the colossal proportions of architecture in the ancient East. The walls of Solomon's temple, though not mentioned in either Kings or Chronicles, could hardly have been less than four cubits thick (see 1 Kings 6:6), and were probably more (Schurer). Like the Solomonic (1 Kings 6:5-10), the Ezekelian temple had side chambers, which, like those of the earlier building, served as storehouses for priests' clothing, temple utensils, and temple treasures (1 Kings 7:51; 2 Kings 11:2; 2 Chronicles 5:1), and measured four cubits broad in the clear.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, Isaiah 26:1, the New Jerusalem also will have a wall great and high, and made of a precious stone, Revelation 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 Ezekiel 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.

(y) "costae", Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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. The plan is similar to that of the hall at Koyunjik, a large central hall, called the oracle, with smaller rooms built round it.

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The Inner Temple
…4So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. 5After 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. 6And 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. …

1 Kings 6:5 Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
Ezekiel 41:6 The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.
Ezekiel 41:11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.
Ezekiel 41:26 On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.