Ezekiel 41:24
in Ezekiel 41and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves: two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
KJV
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
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This verse in Ezekiel 41
Commentary
4 notes on this verse(Vers. 23 seqq.) And he spoke to me: This is the table before the Lord, and there were two doors in the temple and in the sanctuary, and in the two doors on each side there were two little doors that folded into each other. For there were two doors on each side of the doors, and on the doors of the temple there were carved cherubim and palm tree sculptures, just as they were also engraved on the walls.
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 Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
There is so much difference both in the terms and in the rules of architecture between one age and another, one place and another, that it ought not to be any stumbling-block to us that there is so much in these descriptions dark and hard to be understood, about the meaning of which the learned are not agreed.
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves,....
The words behind it
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּשְׁתַּ֥יִם | ushetayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| דְּלָת֖וֹת | delatot | leaves | H1817 → | 88 times |
| לַדְּלָת֑וֹת | ladelatot | [belonged] to the doors | H1817 → | 88 times |
| שְׁ֚תַּיִם | shetayim | two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| מוּסַבּ֣וֹת | musabot | turning | H5437 → | 161 times |
| דְּלָת֔וֹת | delatot | leaves | H1817 → | 88 times |
| שְׁ֚תַּיִם | shetayim | two [leaves] | H8147 → | 768 times |
| לְדֶ֣לֶת | ledelet | [belonged] to a door | H1817 → | 88 times |
| אֶחָ֔ת | ʾechat | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| וּשְׁתֵּ֥י | ushetei | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| דְלָת֖וֹת | delatot | leaves | H1817 → | 88 times |
| לָאַחֶֽרֶת׃ | laacheret | [belonged] to the other [door] | H312 → | 166 times |
וּשְׁתַּ֥יִםand two
ushetayimH8147 →768 times
דְּלָת֖וֹתleaves
delatotH1817 →88 times
לַדְּלָת֑וֹת[belonged] to the doors
ladelatotH1817 →88 times
שְׁ֚תַּיִםtwo
shetayimH8147 →768 times
מוּסַבּ֣וֹתturning
musabotH5437 →161 times
דְּלָת֔וֹתleaves
delatotH1817 →88 times
שְׁ֚תַּיִםtwo [leaves]
shetayimH8147 →768 times
לְדֶ֣לֶת[belonged] to a door
ledeletH1817 →88 times
אֶחָ֔תone
ʾechatH259 →971 times
וּשְׁתֵּ֥יand two
usheteiH8147 →768 times
דְלָת֖וֹתleaves
delatotH1817 →88 times
לָאַחֶֽרֶת׃[belonged] to the other [door]
laacheretH312 →166 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 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
1 Kings 6:34The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 41:23–25
Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
- 1 Kings 5:8
Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.
- Ezekiel 41:23–25
Through
Ezekiel 40:48Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 6:3
The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- 1 Kings 6:3
About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
