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Ezekiel 41

Ezekiel41

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1 He brought me to the nave and measured the posts, six cubits wide on the one side and six cubits wide on the other side, which was the width of the tent.

2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side. He measured its length, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.

3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits.

4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the nave. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in each story. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported and not penetrate the wall of the house.

7 The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

10 Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

11 The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

14 also the width of the face of the temple, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court,

16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

19 so that there was the face of a man 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 like this through all the house all around.

20 Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

21 The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.

22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”

23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

25 There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged.

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Ezekiel 41

Public-domain commentary and original-language notes for Ezekiel 41. The full AI study guide (summary, themes, context) has its own page.

Chapter Summary

In this chapter: The Vision of the Temple. (1-26).

vv1-26

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.

Cross References

Ezekiel 41
v11 Kings 6:2thematic

The dimensions of the temple house correspond directly with Solomon's temple measurements.

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v41 Kings 6:20thematic

The Holy of Holies is a perfect square of twenty cubits, as in Solomon's temple.

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v61 Kings 6:6thematic

Matches the structural design of side chambers resting on ledges without entering the main temple wall.

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v71 Kings 6:8thematic

Describes the winding stairs or passages ascending upward through the stories of side chambers.

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v8Ezekiel 40:5thematic

The measuring reed of six great cubits defines the foundations of the side chambers.

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v181 Kings 6:29-32thematic

Carvings of cherubim and palm trees decorated the walls and doors of Solomon's temple.

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v22Ezekiel 44:16thematic

Identifies the wooden altar as the table where priests minister directly before the Lord.

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v22Exodus 30:1-3typology

The dimensions of the wooden altar of incense are compared with the tabernacle's golden altar.

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v4Exodus 26:33typology

Establishes the boundary dividing the holy place from the most holy place in the tabernacle.

v51 Kings 6:5thematic

Solomon built side chambers against the walls of the temple round about both sanctuary and oracle.

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v7Ezekiel 42:5thematic

Explains how the upper chambers were wider as the walls of the house receded.

v19Ezekiel 1:10allusion

The two faces of the cherubim (man and lion) link back to the four-faced living creatures.

v211 Kings 6:33thematic

The squared posts of the temple entrance parallel the square posts in Solomon's temple.

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v4Hebrews 9:3-8typology

The theological significance of the Holy of Holies and access into the divine presence.

v16Ezekiel 40:16thematic

The narrow windows and palm tree decorations echo the design elements of the outer gates.

v161 Kings 6:4thematic

Solomon's temple likewise featured narrow, latticed windows for light and ventilation.

v22Malachi 1:7thematic

The altar is functionally called the 'table of the Lord' in sacrificial vocabulary.

v231 Kings 6:34thematic

The two folding leaves for each of the two doors matches the entrance pattern.