Ezekiel 41:15

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...

The description of certain details is introduced by a summary statement of what had been already done. GALLERIES - On either side of the eastern front of the building on the separate place was a gallery of ten feet, under which was an approach to the building, by which the refuse was to be carried in by openings in the north and south, and then carried out by a western postern....

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

AND HE MEASURED THE LENGTH OF THE BUILDING OVER AGAINST THE SEPARATE PLACE,.... Which was ninety cubits, as appears from Ezekiel 41:12, when measured by itself: WHICH WAS BEHIND IT; that is, behind the separate place, or holiest of all, at the back of it, at the west end. Noldius g renders the words, "he measured the length of the building before the separate place, and behind it"; or its back part, as the Syriac, and interprets it thus; that he measured the building or the porch which was before the temple, that is to the north; and the porch opposite to it, that is to the south: this "building" behind it, with the Jews h, is the same with Bethchaliphoth i, or the house of knives, which the priests used in sacrificing: AND THE GALLERIES THEREOF ON THE ONE SIDE, AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, AN HUNDRED CUBITS; as the above is the length of this

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)...

The interior of the Temple was boarded or panelled no stone was to be seen the walls were carved with double-faced cherubs and palm-trees. In front of the most holy place was a small altar of wood, apparently to be identified with the table of the shew-bread (in olden times regarded as food for the God). Between the holy and the most holy place were carved doors with swinging wings. (The meaning of the words in Ezekiel 41:15 and Ezekiel 41:26 rendered galleries and thick beams is very uncertain.)...

GALLERIES. Hebrew. _attik_, Occurs only here, Ezekiel 41:16, and Ezekiel 42:3; Ezekiel 42:5. Probably from _natak_, to cut away, but in what sense is obscure. Perhaps balconies....

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_....

D. The Sacred House 40:48-41:26 TRANSLATION (48)Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. (49) The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went Up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. (1) And 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. (2) And the breadth 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: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. (3) The...