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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:10

Ewald and Smend, following the LXX ; combine verses; 9 and 10 thus: "And that which was left between the side chambers of the house and the cells (along the inner court wall) was twenty cubits round about the house on every side." Interpreters who reject this combination of the verses explain Ezekiel 41:10 as a statement of the distance between the outside wall of the side chambers and the cells of the inner court. Between the two lay the wideness of twenty cubits ; i.e. a free space... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:11

The place that was left has been differently explained (see above on Ezekiel 41:9 ); but on any hypothesis the side chambers opened on the free space towards the north and towards the south, g.s. one row of chambers was entered by a door from the south, another by a door from the north. The corridor into which the chambers opened—whether between them and the house (Ewald, Currey) or between them and an outside wall (Kliefoth, Hengstenberg, Keil)—was five cubits broad. Thus the whole... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:8

The foundations of the side chambers - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of junction between two stories, which would be that of the ceiling of the lower and the floor of the upper story. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:9

And that which was left - i. e., the passage (F) between the side-chambers and the temple-wall, was five cubits Ezekiel 41:11.The place of the side chambers that were within - Within the side-chambers which belong to the house. The seer is giving first the height of the side-chambers Ezekiel 41:8, and then the breadth, from the outside of the wall of these chambers to the temple-wall. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:11

The doors of the side-chambers opened on to the passage or corridor, between the chambers and the temple-wall. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 41:7-8

Ezekiel 41:7-8. And there was an enlarging Namely, of the side-chambers; so much of breadth added to the chambers as was taken from the thickness of the wall: see the preceding note; and a winding about still upward Winding stairs, which enlarged as the rooms did, went up between each two chambers from the bottom to the top; and there were two doors at the top of each pair of stairs, one door opening into one chamber, and the other into the opposite one. For the winding about, &c.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 41:9-11

Ezekiel 41:9-11. The thickness of the wall, &c. This is supposed to be meant of an outward wall enclosing the side-chambers. And that which was left Or, the space which was left, as Bishop Newcome translates it, judging it to be intended of a space allowed for a walk, or gallery of communication, before the chambers, which space was five cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:11. And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits A word being here used for chambers different from that... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-26

The temple proper (40:48-41:26)From the inner court the way into the temple proper was up a flight of steps on the western side of the court, between two pillars at the top of the steps, and through a vestibule or entrance room (48-49). From the vestibule an entrance led into the nave or Holy Place (the outer sanctuary). From the nave a narrower entrance led into the Most Holy Place (the inner sanctuary) (41:1-4).Attached externally to the sides and rear of the temple proper were three storeys... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 41:8

the height of the house = that the house had an elevation or platform. reed. See App-51 . read more

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