Ezekiel 41:2 - Exposition

The breadth of the door , i.e. of the opening from the porch, was ten cubits ; whereas the door into the porch was eleven cubits ( Ezekiel 40:49 ). This would have the effect of rendering the door into the holy place more conspicuous. The sides (or, shoulders ) of the door —according to Kliefoth, "the side walls," from the door to the corner pillars; according to Keil, the shoulders lay behind the pillars—were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other ; i.e. were as broad as the posts of the porch. The length of the holy place, forty cubits , and the breadth, twenty , were the same as in the Solomonic structure. The entire frontage of the holy place was 20 cubits of interior breadth + 12 (2 x 6) cubits, as breadth of pillars—32 cubits; or, otherwise, 6 + 6, for the two pillars, 5 + 5 for the sides, and 10 for the door opening = 32 cubits in all.