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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:1-26

Passing to the Temple proper, the prophet portrayed it first from the outside, describing the actual Temple, with its Holy Place, and Holy of Holies, then the side chambers; and, finally, another separate building, ending with the general dimensions of the inner court, the house buildings, and the separate building. This was followed by a description of the woodwork within, and its ornamentation. The technicalities are difficult to follow, but it is clear that the general effect of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 41:1-2

‘And he brought me to the temple and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent. And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides (shoulders) of the entrance were five cubits on the one side and five cubits on the other side. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.’ Now we are entering the ‘nave’ of the sanctuary, the holy place. The posts are one cubit larger than... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 41:1-4

The Sanctuary (Ezekiel 41:1-4 ). We have now reached the central focus of the temple complex, the sanctuary itself. This was divided into three parts, the porch or vestibule (’ulam), the holy place (the nave - hekal - from the Sumerian e.gal ‘great house’) and the holiest of all (the holy of holies) (here depicted by ‘debir’ - from a root meaning ‘back’ or ‘rear’). Everything up to this point has indicated the increasing holiness, from the seven steps by which entry was first made into the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 41:1-26

The Measuring of the Temple (Ezekiel 40:5 to Ezekiel 42:20 ). There follows now the measuring in detail of the temple and the temple area, and we may ask what is the purpose of these detailed measurements? In actual fact they were very important for they confirmed the reality of the invisible temple and its purpose. While a visionary temple, it was nevertheless firmly grounded in reality. The measuring made clear to the people a number of facts which they needed to learn. Firstly it stressed... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 41:3-4

‘Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits, and the entrance six cubits, and the breadth of the entrance seven cubits. And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place”.’ Notice ‘he went inward’. No longer ‘he brought me’ (Ezekiel 40:28; Ezekiel 40:32; Ezekiel 40:35; Ezekiel 40:48; Ezekiel 41:1). For Ezekiel could not enter the most holy place. That could only be entered by... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 41:1-4

Ezekiel 40:48 to Ezekiel 41:4 . This consisted of three parts: ( a) the porch— with a pillar on either side of it— reached by a flight of steps ( Ezekiel 40:48 f.; in Ezekiel 40:49, for “ eleven” read, with LXX, “ twelve” ); ( b) the nave or large inner room beyond it (the “ holy place” ), whose name, “ temple,” was often applied to the whole structure; ( c) beyond that the mysterious “ most holy” place (half the length of the “ holy place” ), where Yahweh dwells, and only the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 41:2

The door; or the aperture, the open space which let in light, as well as men; properly the door of the porch. Ten cubits, between post and post, on which the folding doors did hang. The sides of the door; the space from the edge of the wall by the posts to the side wall inward was on each side five cubits, on the north side so many, and on the south so many, which make the contents between wall and wall, as the verse hath it, twenty cubits in breadth. The length of the sanctuary, from the porch... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 41:3

Inward; from the porch through the body of the temple, to the partition between the body of the temple and the holy of holies, or the oracle. The post; either the thickness of that partition wall, or of the pilasters, which stood one on one side and the other on the other side of the door. The door, or entrance out of the temple into the oracle. This door was six cubits high, say some, but, more likely, it was six cubits broad, and an upright bar or post on which the leaves did meet, and which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-26

THE TEMPLE AND ITS ORNAMENTS (Chap, 41)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 41:1. “The temple”—the holy place, the Temple proper, as distinguished from the porch, described in chap. Ezekiel 40:48-49, and from the Holy of Holies (1 Kings 6:17; 1 Kings 7:50). “Which was the breadth of the tabernacle.” Which was is not in the original, and should be omitted. As in the measurement of the porch the angel had pointed to Solomon’s Temple, so here in the edifice itself he points to the old Tabernacle. Worship is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-26

Chapter 41So in chapter 41 he continues to describe the temple and the posts and all.He measured ( Ezekiel 41:4 )In verse Ezekiel 41:4 you get into the temple house itself and to the holy place, which was,twenty cubits, before the temple: This is the most holy place ( Ezekiel 41:4 ).The temple house itself is twenty cubits by forty cubits, which would be about forty by eighty feet, which was a fairly good size room in itself.And he describes in verses Ezekiel 41:18 , and Ezekiel 41:19 the... read more

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