Ezekiel 42:15
in Ezekiel 42Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
KJV
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
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This verse in Ezekiel 42
Commentary
3 notes on this verseon Ezekiel 42:15-20
(Verse 15 onwards) When he had finished measuring the interior dimensions of the house, he led me along the way of the gate that faced east, and he measured it all around. (He measured the likeness of the house all around in order.) He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was 500 rods long by the measuring rod all around. (He also measured the north side, south side, and west side.) And he measured against the north wind, five hundred cubits, measuring with a cubit in circumference.
This site's exposition
made an end of measuring the inner house
on Ezekiel 42:15-20
The tour's inner survey ends and the reed goes around the whole: five hundred reeds on the east, north, south and west, a square, with the purpose stated in the last clause and nowhere softened, a wall round about, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. The book that watched the glory leave a defiled house (11:23) is building the conditions of its return two chapters before it comes (43:4), as the bench reads the order. The readings on the five hundred reeds' enormous extent (a real future precinct, so the literal line; ideal proportions, so others) are named with holders, and the stated purpose, separation, is the note's last word because it is the text's.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The Precincts. The temple and its courts were surrounded by an area of exact dimensions 3,000 cubits (1,500 yards) square. See Plan IV. Eze 42:15 The inner house - The temple and its courts, all that lay within the “wall on the outside of the house Eze 40:5; the gate” is the eastern gate of the outer court. Measured it round about - The precincts, into which he had brought the seer through the eastern gate of the outer court.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
When the priests arrive, etc. Once they enter those chambers to eat.
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. 5 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
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכִלָּ֗ה | vekhilah | and he had completed | H3615 → | 208 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִדּוֹת֙ | midot | [the] measurements of | H4060 → | 55 times |
| הַבַּ֣יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הַפְּנִימִ֔י | hapenimi | <the> inner | H6442 → | 32 times |
| וְהוֹצִיאַ֙נִי֙ | vehotziani | and he brought out me | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| דֶּ֣רֶךְ | derekh | [the] way of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| הַשַּׁ֔עַר | hashaar | the gate | H8179 → | 374 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| פָּנָ֖יו | panav | face its | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| דֶּ֣רֶךְ | derekh | [was] [the] direction of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| הַקָּדִ֑ים | hakadim | the east | H6921 → | 69 times |
| וּמְדָד֖וֹ | umedado | and he measured it | H4058 → | 51 times |
| סָבִ֥יב׀ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| סָבִֽיב׃ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
וְכִלָּ֗הand he had completed
vekhilahH3615 →208 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
מִדּוֹת֙[the] measurements of
midotH4060 →55 times
הַבַּ֣יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
הַפְּנִימִ֔י<the> inner
hapenimiH6442 →32 times
וְהוֹצִיאַ֙נִי֙and he brought out me
vehotzianiH3318 →1067 times
דֶּ֣רֶךְ[the] way of
derekhH1870 →707 times
הַשַּׁ֔עַרthe gate
hashaarH8179 →374 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
פָּנָ֖יוface its
panavH6440 →2123 times
דֶּ֣רֶךְ[was] [the] direction of
derekhH1870 →707 times
הַקָּדִ֑יםthe east
hakadimH6921 →69 times
וּמְדָד֖וֹand he measured it
umedadoH4058 →51 times
סָבִ֥יב׀all around
savivH5439 →336 times
סָבִֽיב׃all around
savivH5439 →336 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 41:15Next 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…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 42:3
Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
- 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.
- Song of Solomon 1:17
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- Ezekiel 42:3
Through
Ezekiel 43:1Then the man brought me back to the gate that faces east,
it leads to
- Ezekiel 44:1
The man then brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faced east, but it was shut.
- Ezekiel 46:1
“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the…
- Ezekiel 40:6
Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
- Ezekiel 10:19
As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the…
- Ezekiel 43:4
and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.
- Ezekiel 44:1
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.