_Afterward he brought me to the temple_ “After having described the courts and the porch, the prophet enters into the temple, properly so called, whereof he gives the dimensions and description.” _And he measured the posts_ By the posts are meant the door-cases on each side of the entrance. These we... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then went he inward_ From the outward sanctuary he went forward toward the holy of holies, and measured the thickness of the partition wall to be two cubits, the entrance itself six cubits, and breadth of the wall, on each side of the door, seven cubits: see Ezekiel 40:48; where the breadth of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_He measured the wall of the house, six cubits_ Three yards thick was this wall, from the ground to the first story of the side-chambers. _And the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits_ Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differed in their breadth, as the wall o... [ Continue Reading ]
_And there was an enlarging_ Namely, of the side-chambers; so much of breadth added to the chambers as was taken from the thickness of the wall: see the preceding note; _and a winding about still upward_ Winding stairs, which enlarged as the rooms did, went up between each two chambers from the bott... [ Continue Reading ]
_The thickness of the wall_, &c. This is supposed to be meant of an outward wall enclosing the side-chambers. _And that which was left_ Or, _the space which was left_, as Bishop Newcome translates it, judging it to be intended of a space allowed for a walk, or gallery of communication, before the ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now the building_, &c. This seems to be another building not before mentioned, but now measured by itself. _So he measured the house_ The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary, and porch, with the walls, which were in length a hundred cubits from east to west, which may be thus computed: CUBITS. The th... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he measured the length_, &c. Noldius translates this sentence more clearly thus: _And he measured the length of the building which was before the separate place_, [and] _that which was behind it_, or opposite to it; by which he understands the north and south porch, the east and west sides havi... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it was made with cherubims and with palm-trees_ On the inside of the house the walls were adorned with carved work of cherubim and palm-trees, as Solomon's temple was, 1 Kings 6:29. The cherubs and palm-trees were placed alternately; and according to the different ways of counting them, you mig... [ Continue Reading ]
_The posts of the temple were squared_, &c. The lintels, or door-posts, both of the temple and inner sanctuary, were not arched, but square, with a flat beam, or upper lintel, laid upon the top of the side-posts: compare the margin of 1 Kings 6:33. _The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the l... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors_ Each of them had a double, or folding-door. _And the doors had two leaves apiece _ The two doors being exceedingly large, that of the outward sanctuary ten cubits broad, and that of the inner six, (see Ezekiel 41:2,) and of a height proportionable; ea... [ Continue Reading ]