Ezequiel 41:16

The door posts. — This is the same word as in Ezequiel 40:6, &c., and means thresholds. The various particulars mentioned — the thresholds, the windows, and the galleries — are all to be taken in connection with the “he measured” of Ezequiel 41:15, and are details of the three buildings there spoken of, yet they did not all of them necessarily belong to each building.

Narrow windows. — Rather, closed windows. (See Note on Ezequiel 40:16.)

On their three stories. — “Stories” is not in the original, and introduces a wrong idea. He measured the three buildings (Ezequiel 41:15), and various details about their three (constructions) (Ezequiel 41:16).

Over against the door, cieled with wood round about. — This is really a parenthesis, although scarcely intelligible as it stands. Translate, Opposite the thresholds (was) a ceiling of wood round about. The part strictly opposite the threshold was the lintel; but the expression is here broad enough to include also the sides of the doorway. The doorways in the various buildings were all ceiled with wood, and it is afterwards said that this was carved.

And from the ground. — After the parenthesic, the construction dependent upon “he measured” is resumed. As everything else was measured, so also the space between the ground and the windows; then, again, it is mentioned parenthetically that the windows were covered, viz., as in Ezequiel 40:16, by lattices fastened so as not to be opened.