Ezekiel 41:8

8 I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

Ezekiel 41:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 41:8

I saw also the height of the house round about
Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits;
not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four cubits broad, ( Ezekiel 41:5 ) , nor of the middlemost, which was five; but of the uppermost, which was six; and these were cubits of the largest size, a hand's breadth larger than the common cubit, and made one full reed, or three yards and a half; see ( Ezekiel 40:5 ) , these foundations signify the same as the twelve foundations of the wall of the New Jerusalem; and which are no other than the one foundation Christ, ministerially laid by his twelve apostles; and who is the only foundation of his church and people, and is a sure one, ( Revelation 21:14 Revelation 21:19 ) ( Ephesians 2:20 ) ( 1 Corinthians 3:11 ) ( Isaiah 28:16 ) .

Ezekiel 41:8 In-Context

6 And the chambers were one over another, and thirty-three by order; and they entered supports into the wall of the house round about, upon which the chambers might have hold, but they did not have hold upon the wall of the house.

7 And there was an enlarging and a winding about in the chambers to the highest part; for the winding about of the house went very high round about inside the house; therefore the house had greater breadth upward, and from the lowest chamber it rose to the highest by the one in the middle.

8 I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the outside wall of the chambers was five cubits; and the space that was left of the chambers that were within.

10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.