Ezekiel 41:1-10

1 After that, the man brought me into the sanctuary of the Temple. He measured the walls on either side of its doorway, and they were 10 feet thick.

2 The doorway was 17 feet wide, and the walls on each side of it were 8 feet long. The sanctuary itself was 70 feet long and 35 feet wide.

3 Then he went beyond the sanctuary into the inner room. He measured the walls on either side of its entrance, and they were 3 feet thick. The entrance was 10 feet wide, and the walls on each side of the entrance were 12 feet long.

4 The inner room of the sanctuary was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. “This,” he told me, “is the Most Holy Place.”

5 Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.

6 These side rooms were built in three levels, one above the other, with thirty rooms on each level. The supports for these side rooms rested on exterior ledges on the Temple wall; they did not extend into the wall.

7 Each level was wider than the one below it, corresponding to the narrowing of the Temple wall as it rose higher. A stairway led up from the bottom level through the middle level to the top level.

8 I saw that the Temple was built on a terrace, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. This terrace was 10 feet high.

9 The outer wall of the Temple’s side rooms was 8 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms

10 and the row of rooms along the outer wall of the inner courtyard. This open area was 35 feet wide, and it went all the way around the Temple.

Ezekiel 41:1-10 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. As in Greek version; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
• [b]. Hebrew 6 cubits [3.2 meters]; also in 41:3, 5 .
• [c]. Hebrew 10 cubits [5.3 meters].
• [d]. Hebrew 5 cubits [2.7 meters]; also in 41:9, 11 .
• [e]. Hebrew 40 cubits [21.2 meters] long and 20 cubits [10.6 meters] wide.
• [f]. Hebrew 2 cubits [1.1 meters].
• [g]. Hebrew 7 cubits [3.7 meters].
• [h]. Hebrew 20 cubits [10.6 meters]; also in 41:4b, 10 .
• [i]. Hebrew 4 cubits [2.1 meters].
• [j]. Hebrew 1 rod, 6 cubits [3.2 meters].