In this chapter the divine and illustrious Person, the prophet’s guide, brings him to the temple itself, and gives the dimensions of the posts and doors, both of the holy and the most holy place, Ezek.

Afterward he brought me to the temple Having measured the porch into it, its posts, and gate. This is the body of the building, which was the “frame” of a city first shown, the principal fabric; for hitherto he had been only measuring the outward and inner courts, and their gates, and what were in…

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits The temple door: great care is taken to observe and give the dimensions of the doors and gates of various places; to put us in mind of Christ the door and gate into the church, and into fellowship with God: this was as broad again as the door of Solomon’s…

Then went he inward Through the temple or holy place he had measured, to the holy of holies: and measured the post of the door two cubits; this was the door into the most holy place; there was one in Solomon’s temple; but in the second temple there was none; but two rails instead of it, which were…

So he measured the length thereof twenty cubits That is, of the most holy place, from east to west; which was the measure of it in Solomon’s temple, : and the breadth twenty cubits before the temple: that is answerable or according to the breadth of the temple or holy place; which was also twenty…

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 the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order There were three stories of them, and thirty in every storey, in all ninety; there were such chambers round about Solomon’s temple, and so many stories of them, though their number is not expressed, (1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:6) ,…

And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers These chambers, as they rose up in stories one above another, were larger and larger; those in the middlemost storey were larger than those in the lower storey by a cubit; so much being taken out of the thickness of…

I saw also the height of the house round about Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have…

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits This is the outward wall of the chambers, north and south, which was five cubits thick, made of stone; (See Gill on Ezek.

And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits, &c.] Not the side chambers before mentioned, as if there was the space of twenty cubits between each chamber; for another word is used; more probably the meaning is, that between the side chambers, or the void space before them of five…

And the doors of the side chambers were towards the place that was left These opened to the void space before them; that is, those of the lower storey; the others must open to the winding staircase that led down to it: one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; which is not to be…

Now the building that was before the separate place The “separate place” is the holy of holies, which was separated by a vail under the second temple, and by a wall as in this, and the first from the holy place: “before or over against” which was a building, as it is rendered, , a new building, not…

So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long The whole temple, the parts of which he had measured; and this is the sum total: and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; these are the several parts of the house or temple: the “separate place”, the…

Also the breadth of the face of the house, and the separate place toward the east The whole front of the temple, the holy and most holy place, which looked to the east: and was measured from north to south, an hundred cubits: which some reckon thus; the breadth of the temple twenty cubits; the…

And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place Which was ninety cubits, as appears from , when measured by itself: which was behind it; that is, behind the separate place, or holiest of all, at the back of it, at the west end.

The door posts and the narrow windows Of the inner temple or holy of holies; for this is what is last mentioned; of the door posts of it, see , in the holy of holies, both in Moses’s tabernacle, and Solomon’s temple, were no windows; Jehovah dwelt in thick darkness, , but in this inner temple, or…

To that above the door, even unto the inner house The meaning is, either there were such windows as before described above the door of the eastern gate, that led into the holiest of all, and even unto the inner house, or holy of holies: and without; and to all the side, chambers that were built…

And it was made with cherubim and palm trees That is, all the wall of the house round about was ornamented with these, even both of the holy and of the most holy place; with these the curtains of Moses’s tabernacle, and the vail that divided between the holy and the most holy place, were decorated;…

So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side The cherubim in this verse are the same with the living creatures this prophet saw by the river Chebar, and which he knew to be the cherubim, and the same with John’s four beasts or living creatures in (Rev. 4:7, Rev.

From the ground unto above the door From the floor of the holy of holies to above the door of it to the east, where was the entrance into it; or from thence to the cieling, as the Septuagint version: “were cherubim and palm trees made”; either in rows one above another, quite up to the place…

The posts of the temple were squared Or, were “foursquare” [[12]]; the two posts on each side the door, the lintel and the threshold, made a square; the posts themselves were not round, as pillars, but flat and square; and the upper part was not arched, as in some buildings, but square.

The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits This was the altar of incense, and was typical of Christ in his intercession and mediation.

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. ] Or the house of propitiatory, as the Targum; that is, the most holy place; not two doors apiece, but each had one door, which made two; the door of the temple was ten cubits broad, and the door of the most holy place six cubits, (Ezek. 41:2, Ezek.

And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves Each of these doors had two leaves, which met in a middle post, and might be opened either singly or together, as occasion required; (See Gill on Ezek.

And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple Both of the holy, and the most holy place: cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; the doors of both places had the same decorations as the walls of each; (See Gill on Ezek. 41:18); (See Gill on Ezek.

And there were narrow windows See : and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; upon the posts that were on each side the porch, north and south; (Ezek. 40:16, Ezek.