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E.W. Bullinger

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 40:8

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 40:9

posts: or projections, coigns or small turrets. inward = toward. [the house]. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 40:11

entry = entrance, or doorway. length = extent, or way. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 40:5

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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 40:11

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 40:5

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 40:6

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

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