E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 40:7
little. This word may well be omitted. within. Revised Version = toward the house. read more
little. This word may well be omitted. within. Revised Version = toward the house. read more
He measured, &c. Verse 8 is not found in the Septuagint, Syriac, or Vulgate. It may be the latter clause of Ezekiel 40:7 copied again through human infirmity. read more
posts: or projections, coigns or small turrets. inward = toward. [the house]. read more
entry = entrance, or doorway. length = extent, or way. read more
Ezekiel 40:5. By the cubit, and an hand-breadth— Each cubit containing a cubit and an hand-breadth, called the great cubit, chap. Eze 41:8 and supposed equal to half a yard. According to Michaelis, the Hebrew measures are: 1. The finger's breadth. 2. Four fingers, or hand-breadth. 3. Ell; the smaller of five hand-breadths, the larger of six. 4. Rod, of six ells. He also allows the Rabbinical account, that a finger is equal to the length of six barley grains. See chap. Ezekiel 43:13. Of the... read more
Ezekiel 40:6. Stairs— Steps. read more
Ezekiel 40:11. The length of the gate— The length of the entry of the gate. Ezekiel 40:12. The space] The border. read more
5. Measures were mostly taken from the human body. The greater cubit, the length from the elbow to the end of the middle finger, a little more than two feet: exceeding the ordinary cubit (from the elbow to the wrist) by an hand-breadth, that is, twenty-one inches in all. Compare Ezekiel 43:13; Ezekiel 40:5. The palm was the full breadth of the hand, three and a half inches. breadth of the building—that is, the boundary wall. The imperfections in the old temple's boundary wall were to have no... read more
6. the stairs—seven in number (Ezekiel 40:26). threshold—the sill [FAIRBAIRN]. other threshold—FAIRBAIRN considers there is but one threshold, and translates, "even the one threshold, one rod broad." But there is another threshold mentioned in Ezekiel 40:7. The two thresholds here seem to be the upper and the lower. read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 40:6
the other: viz. that mentioned in Ezekiel 40:7 . read more