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
The doors of the side-chambers opened on to the passage or corridor, between the chambers and the temple-wall. read more
The separate place - See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate (compare Ezekiel 43:21). The building itself was, we are told, seventy cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick (eighty cubits in all), leaving ten cubits on each side to make up the 100 cubits from... read more
Ezekiel 41:1-2. Afterward he brought me to the temple “After having described the courts and the porch, the prophet enters into the temple, properly so called, whereof he gives the dimensions and description.” And he measured the posts By the posts are meant the door-cases on each side of the entrance. These were six cubits thick on the north and south sides; which was the breadth of the tabernacle These walls, in their thickness, took up as much space as the whole breadth of Moses’s... read more
Ezekiel 41:3-4. Then went he inward From the outward sanctuary he went forward toward the holy of holies, and measured the thickness of the partition wall to be two cubits, the entrance itself six cubits, and breadth of the wall, on each side of the door, seven cubits: see Ezekiel 40:48; where the breadth of the gate is taken in the same sense. The breadth of the wall, thus computed, making up fourteen cubits, and being added to the breadth of the entrance itself, makes up twenty cubits;... read more
Ezekiel 41:5-6. He measured the wall of the house, six cubits Three yards thick was this wall, from the ground to the first story of the side-chambers. And the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differed in their breadth, as the wall of the temple, on which they rested, abated of its thickness; for the middle chambers were broader than the lowest by a cubit, and the highest as much broader than the middle. The... read more
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
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
Ezekiel 41:12-14. Now the building, &c. This seems to be another building not before mentioned, but now measured by itself. So he measured the house The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary, and porch, with the walls, which were in length a hundred cubits from east to west, which may be thus computed: CUBITS. The thickness of the wall of the east porch 5 The passage through the porch 11 The wall between the porch and the temple 6 The outward sanctuary 40 The partition wall 2 The holy of... read more
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
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:10
See H, Plan I. read more