Ezekiel 41

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Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

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the posts These were probably a sort of door-case on each side of the entrance; and the tabernacle perhaps was a kind of covering to the door , of the same dimensions.

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The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

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And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.

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Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

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Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

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The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

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one over another Heb. side chamber over side chamber , thirty in order. or , three and thirty times , or feet. We find by Josephus , that around Solomon's temple were chambers three stories high , each story consisting of thirty chambers; which are supposed to have been on the north , south , and east sides of the temple.

but That is , the beams or supporters , of the chambers were not let into the main wall of the temple; but rested on projections of the outer wall , which became a cubit narrower at every story , leaving a ledge of one cubit , to support the beams.

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The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

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an enlarging In the same proportion in which the thickness of the wall decreased , the chambers increased , so that the middle story was one cubit larger , and the upper story two cubits larger , than the lower rooms; and a winding staircase , which widened in the same manner as the rooms , ascended from the bottom to the top.

Ezekiel 41:8

I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.

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The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

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and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.

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Ezekiel 41:11

The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.

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Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

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the wall This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.

Ezekiel 41:13

Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.

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Ezekiel 41:15

Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,

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Ezekiel 41:16

as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.

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from the ground up to the windows or , the ground unto the windows

covered Probably either by jutting out of the main wall of the temple; or by lattice work , or curtains , or by both.

Ezekiel 41:17

In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,

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To that That is , the windows were placed above the height of the door , at the east end of the temple , and thus continued , at the same height , and at measured distances , along both sides of the holy place , to the wall of the inner sanctuary , in which there were no windows.

Ezekiel 41:18

were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:

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Ezekiel 41:19

the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple.

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Ezekiel 41:21

The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.

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Ezekiel 41:22

There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

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Ezekiel 41:23

Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,

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and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

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Ezekiel 41:25

Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.

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Ezekiel 41:26

There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.

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