Chapter 41

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he brought Ezek 40:2-3, Ezek 40:17

to the temple 1Kgs 6:2; Zech 6:12-13; Eph 2:20-22; 1Pet 2:5; Rev 3:12, Rev 11:1-2; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:15

the posts These were probably a sort of door-case on each side of the entrance; and the tabernacle perhaps was a kind of covering to the door, of the same dimensions.


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the door or, the entrance, This was the door out of the porch into the sanctuary, which seems to have been wider than that from the court to the porch. Exod 26:36, Exod 36:37; 1Kgs 6:31-35; 2Chr 3:7, 2Chr 29:7; John 10:7, John 10:9

the length 1Kgs 6:2, 1Kgs 6:17; 2Chr 3:3


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two cubits This was the thickness of the partition wall between the sanctuary (Ezek 41:2) and holy of holies (Ezek 41:4); the breadth of the wall on each side of the gate being seven cubits, and the entrance into the holy place six cubits in width. Ezek 41:3


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twenty cubits 1Kgs 6:20; 2Chr 3:8; Rev 21:16

This Exod 26:33-34; Heb 9:3-8


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side chamber Ezek 41:6-7, Ezek 42:3-14; 1Kgs 6:5-6


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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 1Kgs 6:6, 1Kgs 6:10

have hold Heb. be holden, 1Pet 1:5

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.


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there was Heb. it was, made broader, and went round, 1Kgs 6:8; Matt 13:32; Heb 6:1

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.


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a full Ezek 40:5; Rev 21:16


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was five Ezek 41:5

that which This appears to have been a walk, or gallery of communication between the chambers, five cubits broad, into which the doors opened. Ezek 41:11, Ezek 42:1, Ezek 42:4


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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. Ezek 41:10


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and the breadth Ezek 41:9, Ezek 42:4


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separate Ezek 41:13-15, Ezek 42:1, Ezek 42:10, Ezek 42:13; Rev 21:27, Rev 22:14-15

the wall This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.


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he measured Ezek 41:13-15 seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits. Ezek 41:13


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galleries or, several walks, or walks with pillars, Ezek 42:3; Song 1:17, Song 7:5; Zech 3:7

with the Ezek 41:17, Ezek 42:15


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narrow Ezek 41:26, Ezek 40:16, Ezek 40:25; 1Kgs 6:4; 1Cor 13:12

ceiled with wood Heb. ceiling of wood, 1Kgs 6:15; 2Chr 3:5; Hag 1:4

from the ground up to the windows or, the ground unto the windows

covered Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work, or curtains, or by both.


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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, Ezek 42:15


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with cherubims 1Kgs 6:29-32, 1Kgs 7:36; 2Chr 3:7

palm trees Ezek 40:16, Ezek 40:22; Rev 7:9

and every Ezek 1:10, Ezek 10:14, Ezek 10:21; Rev 4:7-9


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posts Heb. post, Ezek 40:14; 1Kgs 6:33 *marg.


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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. Exod 30:1-3; 1Kgs 6:20, 1Kgs 6:22, 1Kgs 7:48; 2Chr 4:19; Rev 8:3

This is Ezek 23:41, Ezek 44:16; Exod 25:28-30; Lev 24:6; Prov 9:2; Song 1:12; Mal 1:7, Mal 1:12; 1Cor 10:21; Rev 3:20

before Exod 30:8


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1Kgs 6:31-35; 2Chr 4:22


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Ezek 40:48


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cherubims Ezek 41:16-20


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Ezek 41:16, Ezek 40:16


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