Ezekiel 41:15

15 And he meted the length of the building (over) against the face of that (place) that was separated at the back; he meted the buttresses on ever either side, of an hundred cubits. And he meted the inner temple, and the porches of the foreyard, (And he measured the length of the building at the far end of the open space, that was facing west, and its galleries on either side, and it was a hundred cubits. And the sanctuary, the inner temple, and the porch of the courtyard,)

Ezekiel 41:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 41:15

And he measured the length of the building over against the
separate place
Which was ninety cubits, as appears from ( Ezekiel 41:12 ) , when measured by itself: which was behind it;
that is, behind the separate place, or holiest of all, at the back of it, at the west end. Noldius ^F7 renders the words, "he measured the length of the building before the separate place, and behind it"; or its back part, as the Syriac, and interprets it thus; that he measured the building or the porch which was before the temple, that is to the north; and the porch opposite to it, that is to the south: this "building" behind it, with the Jews ^F8, is the same with Bethchaliphoth ^F9, or the house of knives, which the priests used in sacrificing: and the galleries thereof on the one side, and on the other side, an
hundred cubits;
as the above is the length of this building from east to west, this is the breadth of it from north to south; the breadth of the building itself was seventy cubits, ( Ezekiel 41:12 ) , and the galleries on the north and south sides of it, and the thickness of the walls, which were five cubits each, made thirty more; in all a hundred cubits; which is equal to the breadth of the temple, as in the preceding verse: these galleries, or balconies, or porticos, supported by pilasters, design places for the saints to walk in, converse, and commune with one another; and where Christ the King of saints is held forth, and seen in his beauty and glory; see ( Zechariah 3:7 ) ( Song of Solomon 7:5 ) ( John 17:24 ) : with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
or, "and the inner temple" ^F11 that is, and he also measured the inner temple or holy of holies, with all the porches, chambers, and their walls, and with all the spaces and appendages to it, which were of the same measure; see ( Ezekiel 41:15 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 104. No. 521.
F8 Lipman. Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 50.
F9 Misn. Middot, c. 4. sect. 7.
F11 (ymynph lkyhhw) "et templum interius", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezekiel 41:15 In-Context

13 And he meted the length of the house (of the Lord), of an hundred cubits; and that (place) that was separated, (and) the building, and the walls thereof, (were) of the length of an hundred cubits. (And he measured the length of the Temple, a hundred cubits; and the length of the open space, and the building, and its walls, was also a hundred cubits.)

14 Forsooth the breadth of the street before the face of the house (of the Lord), and of that (place) that was separated against the east, was of an hundred cubits. (And the breadth of the street before the front of the Temple, and of the open space facing east, was also a hundred cubits.)

15 And he meted the length of the building (over) against the face of that (place) that was separated at the back; he meted the buttresses on ever either side, of an hundred cubits. And he meted the inner temple, and the porches of the foreyard, (And he measured the length of the building at the far end of the open space, that was facing west, and its galleries on either side, and it was a hundred cubits. And the sanctuary, the inner temple, and the porch of the courtyard,)

16 lintels, and windows narrow withoutforth and broad within; buttresses in compass by three parts, against the lintel of each, and arrayed with wood by compass all about; soothly from the earth till to the windows, and the windows were closed (the lintels, and the windows narrow outside and broad within, and the galleries all around on three stories, over against the lintel of each, were arrayed with wood all around, from the ground, or the floor, up to the windows; and the windows were covered.)

17 on the doors, and till to the inner house, and withoutforth by all the wall(s) in compass, within and withoutforth at measure. (And above the door, inside and outside, and on all the walls all around, inside and outside, with the same measurements,)