Ezekiel 41:9-19

9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple

10 and the priests’ rooms was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.

12 The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits^[a] wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.^[b]

13 Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits^[c] long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.

15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,

16 as well as the thresholds and the narrow windows and galleries around the three of them—everything beyond and including the threshold was covered with wood. The floor, the wall up to the windows, and the windows were covered.

17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary

18 were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:

19 the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple.

Ezekiel 41:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 41

In this chapter the divine and illustrious Person, the prophet's guide, brings him to the temple itself, and gives the dimensions of the posts and doors, both of the holy and the most holy place, Eze 41:1-4, then of the wall of the house, its side chambers, the winding about to them, and the doors of them, Eze 41:5-11, next of a building before the separate place, its doorposts, narrow windows, and galleries, Eze 41:12-17, after that each of the ornaments of the house are described, Eze 41:18-21, then the altar of incense, Eze 41:22, and the chapter is concluded with observing the decorations and lights on the doors, porch, and side chambers of the temple and sanctuary, Eze 41:23-26.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 40:47
• 2. Ezekiel 42:3
• 3. 1 Kings 6:4
• 4. ver 25-26; 1 Kings 6:15; Ezekiel 42:3
• 5. S 1 Kings 6:18
• 6. Exodus 37:7; S 2 Chronicles 3:7
• 7. S 1 Kings 6:29; 1 Kings 7:36
• 8. Ezekiel 10:21
• 9. S Ezekiel 10:14

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 123 feet or about 37 meters
• [b]. That is, about 158 feet or about 48 meters
• [c]. That is, about 175 feet or about 53 meters; also in verses 14 and 15