Ezekiel 41
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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.
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.
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.

two cubits
This was the thickness of the partition wall between the sanctuary (ver

Ezekiel 41:2,4 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the …

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.
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.
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.

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

1 Kings 6:6,10 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was …

have held [heb] be holden

1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready …

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.

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.

there was [heb] it was made broader, and went round

1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: …

Matthew 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it …

Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us …

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.

I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

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

And the doors of the side chambers were toward 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.
Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

he measured These verses (13-15) seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

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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;
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;
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by 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

And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

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From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

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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 altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof 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.

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.

Exodus 30:1-3 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall …

1 Kings 6:20,22 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty …

1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the …

2 Chronicles 4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, …

Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; …

this is

Ezekiel 23:41 And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon …

Ezekiel 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my …

Exodus 25:28-30 And you shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with …

Leviticus 24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table …

Proverbs 9:2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also …

Songs 1:12 While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof.

Malachi 1:7,12 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we …

1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you …

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, …

before

Exodus 30:8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn incense on …

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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