Ezekiel 41:12

Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. Sum of the measures of the temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it Verse 15. THE GALLERIES - terrace buildings. On the west or back of the temple there was a separate place occupied by buildings of the same external dimensions as the temple - i:e., one hundred cubits square in the entire compass (Fairbairn)....

8-16 The interest we think we make for ourselves, we must acknowledge to be God's gift. Daniel was still firm to his religion. Whatever they called him, he still held fast the spirit of an Israelite. These youths scrupled concerning the meat, lest it should be sinful. When God's people are in Babylon they need take special care that they partake not of her sins. It is much to the praise of young people, not to covet or seek the delights of sense. Those who would excel in wisdom and piety, must learn betimes to keep the body under. Daniel avoided defiling himself with sin; and we should more fear that than any outward trouble. It is easier to keep temptation at a distance, than to resist it when near. And we cannot better improve our interest in any with whom we have found favour, than to use it to keep us from sin. People will not believe the benefit of avoiding excess, and of a spare d...

Verse Ezekiel 41:12. _THE LENGTH THEREOF NINETY CUBITS._] The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was _eighty-one_ cubits long; add _ten_ cubits for the vestibule, or _five_ for the breadth of the separate place, and _five_ for its wall; in all, _ninety_ cubits. See the plan, LHIL. Ezekiel 48:35. By the _separate place_ I suppose the temple itself is meant....

THE SEPARATE PLACE - See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate (compare Ezekiel 43:21). The building itself was, we are told, seventy cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick (eighty cubits in all), leaving ten cubits on each side to make up the 100 cubits from north to south. The length was ninety cubits, which, adding as before the thickness of the walls, gives 100 cubits in length. The whole temple-building was 500 cubits from west to east, and from north to south, 500 cubits....

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

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, Ezekiel 41:15, a new building, not before taken notice of: and it was situated AT THE END TOWARD THE WEST: or "sea" e, the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan. The meaning is, that this building was to the west of the temple, at which end stood the holy of holies, and this near to that: what building is here meant is not easy to say, there being nothing in the first or second temple which answered to it: it seems to be a new building; and what the mystical sense of it is cannot be easily guessed at. Cocceius thinks, that as the holy of holies signifies the heavenly or more

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)...

Behind the Temple, at the extreme west of the whole area enclosed by the wall, was a large building, the purpose of which is not given it may have been used for storage. The Temple building, with the ground immediately surrounding it, was 100 cubits (about 150 feet) square....

The building behind the house on the west, Fig. 3, K To the west of the house proper, but divided from it by the 20 cubits of the "separate place" (Fig. 3, H), was a large building, 70 cubits broad (E. to W. Fig. 3, _rp, sq_), and 90 long (N. to S. Fig. 3, _rs, pq_) breadth being the smaller and length the larger dimension here. The wall of the building all round was 5 cubits thick. The measurements 70 and 90 are inside. The uses which this building served are not specified, they were probably general. _before the separate place_ i.e. the court of 20 cubits broad (Fig. 3, H), which ran round the house. "Before" is opposite to or facing....

NOW THE BUILDING &C.— The word בנין _binian,_ translated _building,_ signifies a _wall_ or _inclosure,_ which ran along the outside of the priests' court, commensurate with the breadth of the western side of the temple, which was seventy cubits from north to south; and extended in length from east to west ninety cubits; ten cubits shorter than the whole area itself, and inclosing a void space of five cubits breadth, which lay between the side chambers and the inclosure; which area and void space may be understood by the _separate place_ in this verse, and the _place which was left,_ or the intermediate place, Ezekiel 41:11. Houbigant renders the beginning of the present verse, _And the edifice which was in the front of the separate area, to the western side, was,_ &c. See Lowth, and Lamy's _Apparatus Biblicus._...