Ezekiel 41

The Inner Temple

1 Then he ¹brought me to the ²nave and measured the ³side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar.

2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. And he measured the length of the nave, ⁴forty cubits, and the width, ⁵twenty cubits.

3 Then he went ⁶inside and measured each ⁷side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

4 He measured its length, ⁸twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before * the ⁹nave; and he said to me, "This is the ¹⁰most holy place."

5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the ¹¹side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.

6 ¹²The side chambers were in three stories, one above another, and thirty in each story; and the side chambers ¹³extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, that they might be fastened, and not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the ¹⁴structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, therefore * the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the second story.

8 I saw also that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of ¹⁵six long cubits in height.

9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the ¹⁶free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

10 and the outer ¹⁷chambers was twenty cubits in width all around the temple on every side.

11 The doorways of the side chambers toward the ¹⁸free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the ¹⁹free space * was five cubits all around.

12 The ²⁰building that was in front of the ²¹separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

13 Then he measured the temple, a ²²hundred cubits long; the ²³separate area with the ²⁴building and its walls were also a ²⁵hundred cubits long.

14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the ²⁶building along the front of the ²⁷separate area behind * it, with a ²⁸gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court.

16 The ²⁹thresholds, the ³⁰latticed windows and the ³¹galleries round about their ³²three stories, opposite the threshold, were ³³paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered ),

17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.

18 It was carved with ³⁴cherubim and ³⁵palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

19 a ³⁶man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young ³⁷lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around.

20 From the ground to above * the entrance ³⁸cherubim and ³⁹palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave.

21 The ⁴⁰doorposts of the ⁴¹nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.

22 The ⁴²altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, "This is the ⁴³table that is before the LORD."

23 The ⁴⁴nave and the ⁴⁵sanctuary each had a double ⁴⁶door.

24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two ⁴⁷swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

25 Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, ⁴⁸cherubim and ⁴⁹palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a ⁵⁰threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside *.

26 There were ⁵¹latticed windows and ⁵²palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the ⁵³porch; thus were the ⁵⁴side chambers of the house and the thresholds.

Ezekiel 41 Commentary

Chapter 41

- After the prophet had observed the courts, he was brought to the temple. If we attend to instructions in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

Cross References

• 1. Ezek 40:2, 3, 17
• 2. Ezekiel 41:21, 23
• 3. Ezekiel 40:9; Ezekiel 41:3
• 4. 1 Kings 6:2, 17; 2 Chronicles 3:3
• 5. 1 Kings 6:2, 17; 2 Chronicles 3:3
• 6. Ezekiel 40:16
• 7. Ezekiel 41:1
• 8. 1 Kings 6:20
• 9. 1 Kings 6:5
• 10. Exodus 26:33, 34; 1 Kings 6:16; 1 Kings 7:50; 1 Kings 8:6; 2 Chronicles 5:7; Hebrews 9:3-8
• 11. 1 Kings 6:5; Ezekiel 41:6-11
• 12. 1 Kings 6:5-10
• 13. 1 Kings 6:6, 10
• 14. 1 Kings 6:8
• 15. Ezekiel 40:5
• 16. Ezekiel 41:11
• 17. Ezekiel 40:17
• 18. Ezekiel 41:9
• 19. Ezekiel 41:9
• 20. Ezekiel 41:13, 15; Ezekiel 42:1
• 21. Ezekiel 41:14; Ezekiel 42:10, 13
• 22. Ezekiel 40:47
• 23. Ezekiel 41:13-15; Ezekiel 42:1, 10, 13
• 24. Ezekiel 41:12
• 25. Ezekiel 40:47
• 26. Ezekiel 41:12, 13; Ezekiel 42:1
• 27. Ezekiel 41:14; Ezekiel 42:1, 10, 13
• 28. Ezekiel 41:16; Ezekiel 42:3, 5
• 29. Isaiah 6:4; Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 40:6; Ezekiel 41:25
• 30. 1 Kings 6:4; Ezekiel 40:16, 25; Ezekiel 41:26
• 31. Ezekiel 41:15
• 32. Ezekiel 42:3
• 33. 1 Kings 6:15
• 34. 1 Kin 6:29, 32, 35; 1 Kings 7:36; Ezekiel 41:20, 25
• 35. 2 Chronicles 3:5; Ezekiel 40:16
• 36. Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:14
• 37. Ezekiel 1:10; Ezekiel 10:14
• 38. Ezekiel 41:18
• 39. Ezekiel 41:18
• 40. 1 Kings 6:33; Ezek 40:9, 14, 16; Ezekiel 41:1
• 41. Ezekiel 41:1
• 42. Exodus 30:1-3; 1 Kings 6:20; Revelation 8:3
• 43. Exodus 25:23, 30; Leviticus 24:6; Ezekiel 23:41; Ezekiel 44:16; Malachi 1:7, 12
• 44. Ezekiel 41:1
• 45. Ezekiel 41:4
• 46. 1 Kings 6:31-35
• 47. 1 Kings 6:34
• 48. Ezekiel 41:18
• 49. Ezekiel 41:18
• 50. Ezekiel 41:16
• 51. Ezekiel 41:16
• 52. Ezekiel 40:16
• 53. Ezekiel 40:9, 48
• 54. Ezekiel 41:5

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. the main inner hall
• [b]. Lit "tent"
• [c]. Lit "shoulders"
• [d]. Lit "its length,"
• [e]. I.e. of the inner sanctuary
• [f]. Lit "house," and so throughout the ch
• [g]. Lit "chamber upon chamber"
• [h]. Lit "thirty times"
• [i]. Lit "they were coming"
• [j]. Lit "the inside of the side chambers"
• [k]. Lit "middle"
• [l]. Lit "height"
• [m]. Or "to the joint"
• [n]. Lit "width"
• [o]. Lit "doorway"
• [p]. Lit "side chamber"
• [q]. Lit "wide"
• [r]. Lit "area"
• [s]. Lit "to"
• [t]. Or "passageway"
• [u]. Or "framed"
• [v]. Or "passageways"
• [w]. Lit "made"
• [x]. Lit "made"
• [y]. Lit "made"
• [z]. Lit "length"
• [aa]. Lit "walls"
• [ab]. Or "turning"
• [ac]. Lit "made"
• [ad]. Lit "made"
• [ae]. Or "canopy of wood over"
• [af]. Or "framed"
• [ag]. Or "canopies"

Chapter Summary

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.