Ezekiel 41:3

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. ^[a] The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide. ^[b]

Ezekiel 41:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 41:3

Then went he inward
Through the temple or holy place he had measured, to the holy of holies: and measured the post of the door two cubits;
this was the door into the most holy place; there was one in Solomon's temple; but in the second temple there was none; but two rails instead of it, which were rent at the death of Christ; and two cubits was the thickness of the post, on which this door was shut: and the door six cubits, and the breadth of the door seven cubits;
this door was a two leaved one; each leaf consisted of three cubits broad, and the post in the middle on which they shut one cubit broad, which made seven: though some think that the side walls of the door are meant, as in ( Ezekiel 41:2 ) , which were each seven cubits; and the breadth of the door, six cubits, made twenty cubits; which was the breadth of the most holy place, as answering to the breadth of the holy place, as in the next verse.

Ezekiel 41:3 In-Context

1 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.

4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place. ”

5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

Footnotes

• [a]. 2 (long) cubits is approximately 3.5 feet or 1.1 meters.
• [b]. 7 (long) cubits is approximately 12.25 feet or 3.7 meters.