Ezekiel 41:21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 41:12-26

Here is, 1. An account of a building that was before the separate place (that is, before the temple), at the end towards the west (Ezek. 41:12), which is here measured, and compared (Ezek. 41:13) with the measure of the house, and appears to be of equal dimensions with it. This stood in a court by itself, which is measured (Ezek. 41:15) and its galleries, or chambers belonging to it, its posts and windows, and the ornaments of them, Ezek. 41:15-17. But what use was to be made of this other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:21

The posts of the temple were squared ,.... Or, were "foursquare" F14 רבעה "quadratus", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; the two posts on each side the door, the lintel and the threshold, made a square; the posts themselves were not round, as pillars, but flat and square; and the upper part was not arched, as in some buildings, but square. Jarchi says he had heard that the posts of Solomon's temple were foursquare; but that is not certain; however, these were.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:15-26

The projecting portions of the temple building. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18-25

The significance of the cherubim. Among the difficulties that attend this question, it seems clear that these composite forms were intended either to represent the human or the angelic, not the Divine. The idea of any artistic representation of the Divine Being in a Hebrew temple is surely quite inadmissible (see Deuteronomy 4:15-17 ). Making our choice, then, between the human and the angelic, we distinctly prefer the former, and think that the general idea is that man, when raised to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18-25

The significance of the palm trees. The cherubim and the palm trees were closely associated; both were largely represented, and they were found in close conjunction: "a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub." Both of them pictured the righteous man in the sanctuary of God, but while the cherub signified the good man at his best bringing himself and all that he had as an offering to God, the palm tree stood for the good man as one who had been made what he was by the services of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:21

The posts of the temple were squared ; literally, as for the temple the doorposts were squared , or "the sanctuary post work of square form" (Keil). The remaining clauses ought to read as in the Revised Version, "As for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance thereof was as the appearance of the temple ," the sanctuary being the holy of holies as distinguished from the holy place or the house as a whole, The precise force of the last words, the appearance as the appearance ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:21

The posts - Not the word used before (see Ezekiel 40:9 note). These “posts” are rather pilasters forming part of the inner walls.The appearance ... other - i. e., the appearance in this vision was the same as in the actual temple (compare Ezekiel 43:3); (or, according to others, the front of the sanctuary resembled, the front of the holy place). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 41:21-22

Ezekiel 41:21-22. The posts of the temple were squared, &c. The lintels, or door-posts, both of the temple and inner sanctuary, were not arched, but square, with a flat beam, or upper lintel, laid upon the top of the side-posts: compare the margin of 1 Kings 6:33. The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits The LXX. add, by way of explication, και το ευρος πηχων δυο , and the breadth thereof two cubits; that it might be foursquare, as Moses’s altar... 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 41:21

posts = post. Singular. Only here and a Samaritan Pentateuch Ezekiel 1:9 . read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 41:12-26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:15-26

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:18-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 41:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 41:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 41:21-22

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 41:1-26

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 41:21

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