Ezekiel 41:8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-11

We are still attending a prophet that is under the guidance of an angel, and therefore attend with reverence, though we are often at a loss to know both what this is and what it is to us. Observe here, 1. After the prophet had observed the courts he was at length brought to the temple, Ezek. 41:1. If we diligently attend to the instructions given us in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:8

I saw also the height of the house round about ,.... Not of the temple itself, but of the chambers, and the three stories of them, which went round about it; and particularly the height of the highest storey, which yet is not given: it could not be so high as the temple itself; for then there would have been no room for windows to let in light into it: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits ; not of the lowest storey of them, for that was but four... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:5-11

The wall and side buildings . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:8

explains that "the house" did not stand upon the level ground, but, like many temple buildings in antiquity (see Schurer, in Riehm's 'Handworterbuch,' art. "Tern. pel Salerno"), upon a height —or, raised basement (Revised Version)— round about , which agrees with the statement in Ezekiel 40:49 that the temple was approached by means of a stair. In consequence of this, the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits ; or, of six cubits to the joining ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:8

The foundations of the side chambers - Therefore the height of the side-chambers from the floor was six cubits there being three stories, which corresponds sufficiently with the twenty cubits which was the height of the temple. “A great cubit” is probably an architectural term to denote the line of junction between two stories, which would be that of the ceiling of the lower and the floor of the upper story. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 41:7-8

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

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-26

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 41:8

the height of the house = that the house had an elevation or platform. reed. See App-51 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:8

8. foundations . . . six . . . cubits—the substructure, on which the foundations rested, was a full reed of six cubits. great—literally, "to the extremity" or root, namely, of the hand [HENDERSON]. "To the joining," or point, where the foundation of one chamber ceased and another began [FAIRBAIRN]. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 41:5-11

The side rooms of the temple 41:5-11 read more

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