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Ezekiel 41:9

in Ezekiel 41

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.

KJV

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the wall of the temple

on Ezekiel 41:5-11

The wall of the temple is six cubits thick. Side rooms ring it in three levels of thirty rooms each, widening at each level because the wall narrows as it rises. Ledges carry the rooms, “so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself”.

This site's exposition

five cubits thick

The side rooms have their own outer wall, five cubits thick, so the house is enclosed in two layers of masonry. The sentence continues into verse 10. There the open area beyond this wall is given as twenty cubits, a clear space kept on every side of the temple.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Versed. 8 seqq.) 'And I saw in the house a height all around, with foundations of reed measuring six cubits, and the width along the outer wall of the side chamber, five cubits. And the inner part of the house and the space between the storehouses, twenty cubits wide all around the house. And there were doors in the side chambers toward the outer court, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the width of the place for worship, five cubits all around.'

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits,....

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

that which was left--There was an unoccupied place within chambers that belonged to the house. The buildings in this unoccupied place, west of the temple, and so much resembling it in size, imply that no place was to be left which was to be held, as of old, not sacred. Manasseh (2Ki 23:11) had abused these "suburbs of the temple" to keeping horses sacred to the sun.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The thickness of the wall - See LLL in the plan. The place of the side chambers - A walk, or gallery of communication along the chambers, five cubits broad, Eze 41:11.
And that which was left - i. e., the passage (F) between the side-chambers and the temple-wall, was five cubits Eze 41:11. The place of the side chambers that were within - Within the side-chambers which belong to the house. The seer is giving first the height of the side-chambers Eze 41:8, and then the breadth, from the outside of the wall of these chambers to the temple-wall.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And between the chambers was a width of twenty cubits There were chambers in the Outer Court, at the north and at the south of the Inner Court, near its wall.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • רֹ֣חַב[the] breadth of

    rochavH7341 →101 times

  • הַקִּ֧ירthe wall

    hakirH7023 →75 times

  • אֲֽשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לַצֵּלָ֛ע[belonged] to the side-chamber

    latzela'H6763 →40 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַח֖וּץthe outside

    hachutzH2351 →164 times

  • חָמֵ֣שׁ[was] five

    chameshH2568 →343 times

  • אַמּ֑וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • וַאֲשֶׁ֣רand which

    vaasherH834 →5497 times

  • מֻנָּ֔ח[was] free space

    munachH5117 →142 times

  • בֵּ֥יתbetween

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • צְלָע֖וֹת[the] side-chambers

    tzelaotH6763 →40 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לַבָּֽיִת׃[belonged] to the house

    labayitH1004 →2046 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 42:1

    Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 42:4

      In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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 40:20

      He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.

    • Ezekiel 42:13

      Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they…

    • Ezekiel 41:1

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

  • Through

    Ezekiel 42:4

    In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 46:19

      Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the…

    • Matthew 7:14

      But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

    • Luke 13:24

      “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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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) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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