Ezekiel 41:1

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. From describing the gates, courts, tables or altars, and courts and porch, he passes on to describe the temple itself. WHICH WAS THE BREADTH OF THE TABERNACLE. As in the measurement of the outer porch he had pointed to Solomon's temple, so here, in the edifice itself, he points to the old tabernacle, which, being eight beards in breadth (each one and a half cubit broad), would make in all twelve cubits, as here. Internally it was only ten cubits....

1-7 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, took Jerusalem, and carried whom and what he pleased away. From this first captivity, most think the seventy years are to be dated. It is the interest of princes to employ wise men; and it is their wisdom to find out and train up such. Nebuchadnezzar ordered that these chosen youths should be taught. All their Hebrew names had something of God in them; but to make them forget the God of their fathers, the Guide of their youth, the heathen gave them names that savoured of idolatry. It is painful to reflect how often public education tends to corrupt the principles and morals....

CHAPTER XLI _In this chapter the prophet gives us a circumstantial account_ _of the measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple_, 1-26. NOTES ON CHAP. XLI Verse Ezekiel 41:1. _TO THE TEMPLE_] He had first described the courts and the porch. See Ezekiel 40:5....

THE TEMPLE - Properly the holy place (a), as distinguished from the porch (G) and the holy of holies (B) 1 Kings 6:17; 1 Kings 7:50. THE POSTS - The outer wall of the temple was six cubits thick Ezekiel 41:5. The eastern posts of this wall forming part of the front of the temple were ornamented with pillars, six cubits on each side. HE MEASURED THE BREADTH - This breadth was twenty cubits Ezekiel 41:2. Omit “which was.” “tabernacle” is here the interior (the covered portion) of the temple....

EXPOSITION The present chapter continues the description of "the house," and falls into four subdivisions. (1) The interior of the temple, or the holy and most holy places (Ezekiel 41:1); (2) the wall and the side buildings (Ezekiel 41:5); (3) the _gizrah_, or separate place (Ezekiel 41:12); (4) the projecting portions of the temple building (Ezekiel 41:15). EZEKIEL 41:1 The interior of the

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 them; but now he is come to the house itself, called a temple; by which not only particular Gospel churches are called, 1 Corinthians 3:16, but the Gospel church state in general, Zechariah 6:12, and especially as in the latter day; so the Philadelphian church state, which represents the spiritual reign of Christ, or the glory of the latter day, is called the temple of my God, Revelation 3:12, which will b

CHAPTER 41 _ 1. The holy place (Ezekiel 41:1) _ 2. The most holy (Ezekiel 41:3) 3. The side chambers (Ezekiel 41:5) 4. The hinder buildings and the measurement (Ezekiel 41:12) 5. Description of the interior of the temple (Ezekiel 41:15)...

EZEKIEL 40:48 TO EZEKIEL 41:4. This consisted of three parts: (_a)_ the porch with a pillar on either side of it reached by a flight of steps (Ezekiel 40:48 f.; in Ezekiel 40:49, for eleven read, with LXX, twelve); (_b)_ the nave or large inner room beyond it (the holy place), whose name, temple, was often applied to the whole structure; (_c_) beyond that the mysterious most holy place (half the length of the holy place), where Yahweh dwells, and only the supernatural guide (but not Ezekiel) is permitted to enter (Ezekiel 41:3 f.).

TEMPLE. palace. Hebrew. _heykal._ POSTS. projections. The Septuagint reads "post. " CUBITS. See App-51. WHICH WAS. Omit these words, and commence Ezekiel 41:2 with the clause which follows. TABERNACLE. tent. Hebrew Wed. See App-40....

Ezekiel 41:1. Measurement of the "temple," the holy place, Fig. 2, B 1. The "posts" or jambs of the entrance wall were 6 cubits thick, Fig. 2, _cd_. _breadth of the tabernacle_ Heb. _tent_. The word does not occur in the prophet except in the compounds Oholah and Oholibah. Read: other side: THE BREADTH OF THE POSTS....