Ezekiel 41:14

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 41:14. _THE BREADTH OF THE FACE OF THE HOUSE_] That is, the front. See the plan, FRR. Ezekiel 48:35....

TOWARD THE EAST - The separate place was measured on its eastern side, for the western was not approachable for the purpose of measurement....

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

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 thickness of the outward walls, twelve cubits; the side chambers, eight cubits; the walls of these chambers, five cubits on each side: the breadth of the void space, five cubits on each side; and twenty cubits round about the house; so that the length and breadth of this structure was the same, and made a perfect foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem is said to be, Revelation 21:16....

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....

General measurements of length and breadth of buildings. These measurements form three squares of 100 cubits. First, the inner court forms a square of 100 cubits when lines are drawn along the front of the house and in front of the inner ends of the gates, Fig. 3, _iklm_. Secondly, the house buildings form a square of 100 cubits, when the 20 cubits of "separate place" N. and S. of them are included, Fig. 3, _lmno_. And thirdly, the building W. of the house buildings forms a square of 100 cubits when the twenty cubits of "separate place" are added to its dimensions from E. to W., Fig. 3, _nopq_....

ALSO THE BREADTH OF THE FACE OF THE HOUSE— _The breadth of the front of the temple, and of the separate area,_ &c. The whole front of the temple eastward was a hundred cubits; which some expositors compute thus. The breadth of the temple twenty cubits; the thickness of the outward walls twelve cubits; the side chambers eight cubits; the walls of those chambers five cubits on each side; the breadth of the void space five cubits on each side; and the twenty cubits round about the house. See Lowth and Lamy....