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Ezekiel 41:2

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The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

KJV

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The breadth of the door - This was the door, or gate, of the sanctuary, (see gates 3, in the plan), and this doorway was filled up with folding gates. The measurements are exactly the same as those of Solomon’s temple. See 1Ki 6:2, 1Ki 6:17.

This site's exposition

brought me into the outer sanctuary

on Ezekiel 41:1-4

The guide measures the outer sanctuary, forty cubits by twenty, then goes into the inner sanctuary. His own words name the room: “This is the Most Holy Place”. Gill notes the slowness of the tour, so that the reader reaches the innermost room only after every approach has been counted.

This site's exposition

forty cubits

Adam Clarke observes that these figures match Solomon's temple, whose holy place was forty cubits by twenty (1 Kings 6:2, 17). The vision keeps the old plan. The house the glory left in chapters 10 and 11 is restored to its first proportions before the glory returns in chapter 43.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 41, Verse 1 and following) 'And he brought me into the temple, and measured the fronts, six cubits in width here and six cubits in width there, the width of the tabernacle. And the width of the gate was ten cubits, and the sides (or shoulders) of the gate were five cubits here and five cubits there. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits.'

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the breadth of the door was ten cubits,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

The measurements are internal, the same as in the Temple of Solomon.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

six cubits wide That is the width of the wall of the Heichal, between the Heichal and the hall (from east to west).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 41:1:1, 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 brought me into the Main Hall (the *Heichal*) and measured the posts, which were six cubits wide on each side, matching the width of the Structure.
Targum · Targum Jonathan on Ezekiel 41:1, via Sefaria, Sefaria Community Translation

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

19 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.

  • וְרֹ֣חַבand [the] breadth of

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • הַפֶּתַח֮the entrance

    hapetachH6607 →164 times

  • עֶ֣שֶׂר[was] ten

    ʾeserH6235 →176 times

  • אַמּוֹת֒cubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • וְכִתְפ֣וֹתand [the] sides of

    vekhitfotH3802 →67 times

  • הַפֶּ֔תַחthe entrance

    hapetachH6607 →164 times

  • חָמֵ֤שׁ[was] five

    chameshH2568 →343 times

  • אַמּוֹת֙cubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • מִפּ֔וֹfrom here

    mipoH6311 →82 times

  • וְחָמֵ֥שׁand five

    vechameshH2568 →343 times

  • אַמּ֖וֹתcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • מִפּ֑וֹfrom here

    mipoH6311 →82 times

  • וַיָּ֤מָדand he measured

    vaiyamodH4058 →51 times

  • אָרְכּוֹ֙length its

    ʾarekoH753 →95 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • אַמָּ֔הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וְרֹ֖חַבand [the] breadth

    verochavH7341 →101 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֥ים[was] twenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

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

Related verses

11 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.

1 Kings 6:17And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.5 works2 Chronicles 3:3The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.5 works1 Kings 6:2The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.5 worksEzekiel 47:1Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.4 works2 Chronicles 29:7They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.2 works1 Kings 6:31–35For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 26:36For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.2 works2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.2 worksJohn 10:9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.2 worksJohn 10:7So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.2 worksExodus 36:37For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,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

    2 Chronicles 29:7

    They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 28:24

      Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street…

    • Leviticus 24:2–8

      “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.

    • 2 Chronicles 29:3

      In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.

    • 2 Kings 16:17–18

      King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and…

  • Through

    1 Kings 6:2

    The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 41:1–15

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

    • Ezekiel 40:1–41

      In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand…

    • Ezra 6:3–4

      In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 3:3

    The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 28:11–19

      Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

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 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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