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Ezekiel 41:12

in Ezekiel 41

Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

KJV

Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Now the building that was before the separate place,.... The "separate place" is the holy of holies, which was separated by a vail under the second temple, and by a wall as in this, and the first from the holy place: "before or over against" which was a building, as it is rendered, Eze 41:15, a new building, not before taken notice of: and it was situated at the end toward the west: or "sea" (e), the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan.

This site's exposition

building that faced the temple courtyard

on Ezekiel 41:12-17

The temple and the building each come to a hundred cubits, whole numbers in place of the odd fractions a real building usually carries. Beveled windows, galleries in three levels, and walls overlaid with wood on all sides are recorded as an eyewitness would report them.

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 Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The length thereof ninety cubits - The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was eighty-one cubits long; add ten cubits for the vestibule, or five for the breadth of the separate place, and five for its wall; in all, ninety cubits. See the plan, LHIL. By the separate place I suppose the temple itself is meant.
The separate place - See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate (compare Eze 43:21). The building itself was, we are told, seventy cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick (eighty cubits in all), leaving ten cubits on each side to make up the 100 cubits from north to south. The length was ninety cubits, which, adding as before the thickness of the walls, gives 100 cubits in length. The whole temple-building was 500 cubits from west to east, and from north to south, 500 cubits.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

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.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And he measured the House, its length was one hundred cubits the grand total, including the extension of the Depository of the Knives. So we learned in Tractate Middoth [concerning the Second Temple] (4:6): “The Heichal was 100 by, with a height of 100 cubits.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:13:1, 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

21 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.

  • וְהַבִּנְיָ֡ןand the structure

    vehabinyanH1146 →7 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אֶל־[was] to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פְּנֵ֨י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַגִּזְרָ֜הthe separate place

    hagizrahH1508 →8 times

  • פְּאַ֣ת[the] side of

    peatH6285 →86 times

  • דֶּֽרֶךְ־[the] direction of

    derekh-H1870 →707 times

  • הַיָּ֗םthe sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • רֹ֚חַב[the] breadth

    rochavH7341 →101 times

  • שִׁבְעִ֣ים[was] seventy

    shivimH7657 →

  • אַמָּ֔הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וְקִ֧ירand [the] wall of

    vekirH7023 →75 times

  • הַבִּנְיָ֛ןthe structure

    habinyanH1146 →7 times

  • חָֽמֵשׁ־[was] five

    chamesh-H2568 →343 times

  • אַמּ֥וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • רֹ֖חַבbreadth

    rochavH7341 →101 times

  • סָבִ֣יב׀all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • סָבִ֑יבall around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • וְאָרְכּ֖וֹand length its

    vearekoH753 →95 times

  • תִּשְׁעִ֥ים[was] ninety

    tishimH8673 →20 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

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

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 42:13Then 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 will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.4 worksEzekiel 42:10On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,4 worksEzekiel 41:13–15Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.4 worksEzekiel 42:1Then 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.4 worksRevelation 22:14–15Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.2 worksRevelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
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 sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,2 works

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 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,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 41:12–15

      Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezekiel 40:20

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

  • Through

    Ezekiel 42:10

    On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

    it leads to

    • 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 7:6

      Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.

    • Leviticus 10:17

      “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them…

    • Ezekiel 40:46

      and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”

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; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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