Ezekiel 40:15

15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Ezekiel 40:15 In-Context

13 Then he measured the gate from the back of the one side room to the back of the other, a breadth of five and twenty cubits, from door to door.

14 He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits; and round about the vestibule of the gateway was the court.

15 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the end of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.

16 And the gateway had windows round about, narrowing inwards into their jambs in the side rooms, and likewise the vestibule had windows round about inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.

17 Then he brought me into the outer court; and behold, there were chambers and a pavement, round about the court; thirty chambers fronted on the pavement.