Ezekiel 41:10
in Ezekiel 41and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
KJV
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
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This verse in Ezekiel 41
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits,.... Not the side chambers before mentioned, as if there was the space of twenty cubits between each chamber; for another word is used; more probably the meaning is, that between the side chambers, or the void space before them of five cubits, and the chambers which were in the court facing them, was such a wideness of twenty cubits: round about the house on every side; on all sides of the temple, where the above chambers were, west, north, and south.
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
twenty cubits wide all around the temple
John Gill notes a different Hebrew word is used here, so the twenty cubits lie between the side rooms and the chambers in the court. The gap is open ground. Ezekiel 43:8 later names the old fault of royal buildings set wall to wall with the sanctuary.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the chambers--that is, of the priests in the court: between these and the side chambers was the wideness, &c. While long details are given as to the chambers, &c., no mention is made of the ark of the covenant.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And the entrance of the cell was toward the clear space And the entrances of the outside cells were open to the left over clear area in the corner, as I explained.
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
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבֵ֨ין | uvein | and between | H996 → | 407 times |
| הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹת | haleshakhot | the rooms | H3957 → | 47 times |
| רֹ֣חַב | rochav | [the] breadth | H7341 → | 101 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | [was] twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| אַמָּ֛ה | ʾamah | cubit[s] | H520 → | 247 times |
| סָבִ֥יב | saviv | around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| לַבַּ֖יִת | labayit | <to> the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| סָבִ֥יב׀ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| סָבִֽיב׃ | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
וּבֵ֨יןand between
uveinH996 →407 times
הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹתthe rooms
haleshakhotH3957 →47 times
רֹ֣חַב[the] breadth
rochavH7341 →101 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים[was] twenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
אַמָּ֛הcubit[s]
ʾamahH520 →247 times
סָבִ֥יבaround
savivH5439 →336 times
לַבַּ֖יִת<to> the house
labayitH1004 →2046 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
5 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 40:17Then 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,
it leads to
- 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.
- Revelation 11:2
But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
- Ezekiel 10:5
The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
- Ezekiel 46:21
Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.
- 2 Chronicles 31:11
Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
- Ezekiel 42:1
About Ezekiel
This page draws on 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.