Ezekiel 40:15

15 It was 87 and a half feet from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its porch.

Ezekiel 40:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:15

And from the face of the gate of the entrance
That is, from the outward gate as you went into the porch, and was to the east, so called from people's passing and repassing F2 in it; so Jarchi takes it to be the eastern gate; the Targum calls it the middle gate: unto the face of the porch of the inner gate;
which opened at the other end of the porch, into the outward court, and was to the west: from gate to gate were fifty cubits;
as he measured the breadth of the porch before, ( Ezekiel 40:13 ) , here the length; there were three chambers six cubits long, which made eighteen; and between each chamber were five cubits, which were ten cubits; and the space between the chambers and the gates at each end were six cubits each; ( Ezekiel 40:8 ) , which make twelve more; and then allow ten cubits for the thickness of both walls of each gate, and there will be fifty cubits, or twenty nine yards and half a foot.


FOOTNOTES:

F2 Vid. R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 9. 1.

Ezekiel 40:15 In-Context

13 Then he measured the gateway from the back wall of one room to the back wall of the room across from it. It was almost 44 feet from the top of one wall to the top of the other.
14 He measured along the front of the side walls that were all around the inside of the gateway. The total was 105 feet. That didn't include the porch that faced the courtyard.
15 It was 87 and a half feet from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its porch.
16 The rooms and their side walls inside the gateway had narrow openings on top of them. So did the porch. All of the openings faced the inside. The front of each side wall was decorated with a palm tree.
17 Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. There I saw some rooms and a sidewalk. They had been built all around the courtyard. Along the sidewalk were 30 rooms.
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