Ezekiel 40:12

12 In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch curb. The alcoves themselves were 10 feet on each side.

Ezekiel 40:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:12

The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on
this side
Or, "a border" ^F1 of half a yard and three inches to the front of the chambers; where those that belonged to them might walk, or have seats to sit on; such a space there was before the three little chambers on the north side of the porch: and the space was one cubit on that side:
a space or border of the same measure was to the front of the three little chambers on the south side of the porch: this may denote the Christian liberty of the members of Gospel churches; which they may use without any breach of piety towards God, or of charity one to another: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on
that side;
they were of the same measure, those on one side, as those of the other, even six cubits square; or one reed, which is the same; see ( Ezekiel 40:7 ) , (See Gill on Ezekiel 40:7).

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (lwbg) "terminus", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Ezekiel 40:12 In-Context

10 There were three guard alcoves on each side of the gateway passage. Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating them were also identical.

11 The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 feet wide at the opening and 22 feet wide in the gateway passage.

12 In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch curb. The alcoves themselves were 10 feet on each side.

13 Then he measured the entire width of the gateway, measuring the distance between the back walls of facing guard alcoves; this distance was 43 feet.

14 He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew 1 cubit [53 centimeters].
• [b]. Hebrew 6 cubits [3.2 meters].