Ezekiel 40:1-49 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:1-4

Here is, 1. The date of this vision. It was in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity (Ezek. 40:1), which some compute to be the thirty-third year of the first captivity, and is here said to be the fourteenth year after the city was smitten. See how seasonably the clearest and fullest prospects of their deliverance were given, when they were in the depth of their distress, and an assurance of the return of the morning when they were in the midnight of their captivity: ?Then the hand of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5-26

The measuring-reed which was in the hand of the surveyor-general was mentioned before, Ezek. 40:3. Here we are told (Ezek. 40:5) what was the exact length of it, which must be observed, because the house was measured by it. It was six cubits long, reckoning, not by the common cubit, but the cubit of the sanctuary, the sacred cubit, by which it was fit that this holy house should be measured, and that was a hand-breadth (that it, four inches) longer than the common cubit: the common cubit was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:27-38

In these verses we have a delineation of the inner court. The survey of the outer court ended with the south side of it. This of the inner court begins with the south side (Ezek. 40:27), proceeds to the east (Ezek. 40:32), and so to the north (Ezek. 40:35); for here is no gate either of the outer or inner court towards the west. It should seem that in Solomon's temple there were gates westward, for we find porters towards the west, 1 Chron. 9:24; 26:8. But Josephus says that in the second... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:39-49

In these verses we have an account, I. Of the tables that were in the porch of the gates of the inner court. We find no description of the altars of burnt-offerings in the midst of that court till Ezek. 43:18. But, because the one altar under the law was to be exchanged for a multitude of tables under the gospel, here is early notice taken of the tables, at our entrance into the inner court; for till we come to partake of the table of the Lord we are but professors at large; our admission to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:1

In the five and twentieth year of our captivity ,.... That is, from Jeconiah's captivity, from whence this prophet begins his dates: he calls it our captivity, because he himself was then carried captive; and this was twenty years after his first vision; see Ezekiel 1:1 , in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month ; the Jews had two beginnings of their year, the one on civil accounts, which was in the autumnal equinox, in the month Tisri, which answers to part of our... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:2

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel ,.... Or by the spirit of prophecy, as the Targum again; that is, being under the impressions of the Spirit of God, it appeared to him, in a visionary way, as if he was really brought out of Chaldea, and set in the land of Israel; see Ezekiel 8:3 , as John was carried away in the spirit to see the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:10 , and set me upon a very high mountain ; as John also was, that he might have a view of this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:3

And he brought me thither ,.... Being brought into the land of Israel in vision, and to a high mountain in it, by which were as the frame of a city; he was from thence brought to the city or temple itself, which looked like one: and, behold , a note of attention and admiration: there was a man ; one in human form; not a created angel, but the Messiah, the builder and owner of the city and temple, whom it was proper the prophet should first have a view of; and by whom he was to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:4

And the man said unto me, Son of man ,.... The glorious and illustrious Person before described, who appeared in a human form, spoke to the prophet, calling him "the Son of man", a title often bestowed upon him in this prophecy; and here used to put him in mind of his original and decent, and of his meanness and unworthiness; thereby teaching him humility, which is necessary in order to receive instruction, and learn the knowledge of divine things: and also he might use this free and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5

And behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about ,.... The first thing that presents itself to the view of the prophet, after the sight of the architect or chief builder, is a wall encompassing this strange and wondrous building; which was like the frame of a city, as before observed: this wall was five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad; see Ezekiel 42:20 , now this wall was both for separation and protection; that it was for separation is certain from Ezekiel 42:20 ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:6

Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east ,.... Or, "whose face is the way to the east" F18 אשר פניו דרך הקדימה "facies ejus via ad orientem", Montanus; "eujus facies, ejus", Vatablus. ; to the east of the house or temple; not to the eastern gate of the wall about the house; but to the eastern gate of the outward court; see Ezekiel 40:20 , for the man came from the wall he had measured unto this gate; which, with the other gates after mentioned, spiritually... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:1-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:27-38

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 40:39-49

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 40:6

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