Ezekiel 41:21
in Ezekiel 41The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance thereof was as the appearance of the temple.
KJV
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
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This verse in Ezekiel 41
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThe posts of the temple were squared,.... Or, were "foursquare" (n); 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.
This site's exposition
posts of the temple were squared
on Ezekiel 41:21-26
The posts of the temple stand squared like the sanctuary's own face, and inside stands a wooden altar three cubits high, the vision's plainest small furnishing, which the guide names for the reader just as he named the most holy place: this is the table that is before the Lord. Commentators connect the naming, this is the table, to the tabernacle's own table of shewbread that stood in the holy place (Exodus 25:23-30), an altar of sacrifice presented under the vocabulary of a table of fellowship. The doors of the temple and the porch carry the same cherubim and palm trees as the walls, so that a worshiper leaving by either door meets the same carved witness that met him going in.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verses 13 and following) And the house was measured in length a hundred cubits. And the separate building, and its walls, were also a hundred cubits in length. The width before the face of the house, and that which was separate against the East, was a hundred cubits. And the length of the building over against the face thereof, which was separated at the back, was also a hundred cubits. And there were chambers exceeding in height on either side a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), not round like pillars; and the appearance of the one was as the appearance of the other. In the tabernacle, and in Solomon's temple, the door of the sanctuary, or most holy, was narrower than that of the temple, but here it was fully as broad; for in gospel-times the way into the holiest of all is made more manifest than it was under the Old Testament ( Heb. ix.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation
The face - The door or gate of the temple was square, not arched. As the appearance - As was the form of the gate of the temple in its larger, so was the form of the gate of the oracle in its lesser dimensions.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The posts - Not the word used before (see Eze 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 Eze 43:3); (or, according to others, the front of the sanctuary resembled, the front of the holy place).
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
appearance of the one as the appearance of the other--The appearance of the sanctuary or holy of holies was similar to that of the temple. They differed only in magnitude.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽהֵיכָ֖ל | haheikhal | the temple | H1964 → | 80 times |
| מְזוּזַ֣ת | mezuzat | a doorpost of | H4201 → | 19 times |
| רְבֻעָ֑ה | revuah | a square | H7251 → | 12 times |
| וּפְנֵ֣י | ufenei | and [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ | hakodesh | the holy place | H6944 → | 469 times |
| הַמַּרְאֶ֖ה | hamareh | the appearance | H4758 → | 103 times |
| כַּמַּרְאֶֽה׃ | kamareh | [was] like the appearance | H4758 → | 103 times |
הַֽהֵיכָ֖לthe temple
haheikhalH1964 →80 times
מְזוּזַ֣תa doorpost of
mezuzatH4201 →19 times
רְבֻעָ֑הa square
revuahH7251 →12 times
וּפְנֵ֣יand [the] face of
ufeneiH6440 →2123 times
הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁthe holy place
hakodeshH6944 →469 times
הַמַּרְאֶ֖הthe appearance
hamarehH4758 →103 times
כַּמַּרְאֶֽה׃[was] like the appearance
kamarehH4758 →103 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 40:14Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
it leads to
- Exodus 27:9
You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
- Isaiah 62:9
For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:6
And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
- Ezekiel 8:7
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
- Psalms 100:4
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
- Exodus 27:9
Through
Ezekiel 41:1Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:2–3
In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.
- Ezekiel 40:17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- Ezekiel 41:23
Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
- Ezekiel 40:2–3
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.