Ezekiel 41:23
in Ezekiel 41Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
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ASV
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
KJV
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
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This verse in Ezekiel 41
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Vers. 23 seqq.) And he spoke to me: This is the table before the Lord, and there were two doors in the temple and in the sanctuary, and in the two doors on each side there were two little doors that folded into each other. For there were two doors on each side of the doors, and on the doors of the temple there were carved cherubim and palm tree sculptures, just as they were also engraved on the walls.
This site's exposition
had a rectangular doorframe
on Ezekiel 41:21-26
The outer sanctuary has a rectangular doorframe. Inside stands an altar of wood, named as the Most Holy Place was named: “This is the table that is before the LORD”. Commentators connect the naming to the tabernacle's table (Exodus 25:23-30), an altar described in the vocabulary of a table.
This site's exposition
double doors
John Gill counts one door for each room, the outer sanctuary and the Most Holy Place, making two doors in all. He notes the outer door is ten cubits wide and the inner only six (41:2, 41:3). The way narrows as it nears God.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. Or the house of propitiatory, as the Targum; that is, the most holy place; not two doors apiece, but each had one door, which made two; the door of the temple was ten cubits broad, and the door of the most holy place six cubits, Eze 41:2 showing the door is wider, and more enter into the outward visible church, or less perfect state, even some bad, as well as good, than the door of the Jerusalem church state, or heavenly glory, into which fewer enter.
There is so much difference both in the terms and in the rules of architecture between one age and another, one place and another, that it ought not to be any stumbling-block to us that there is so much in these descriptions dark and hard to be understood, about the meaning of which the learned are not agreed.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
See the marginal reference. Eze 41:25 Thick planks - Others render it: leaves in wood (and in Eze 41:26).
The words behind it
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּשְׁתַּ֧יִם | ushetayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| דְּלָת֛וֹת | delatot | doors | H1817 → | 88 times |
| לַֽהֵיכָ֖ל | laheikhal | [belonged] to the temple | H1964 → | 80 times |
| וְלַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃ | velakodesh | and to the holy place | H6944 → | 469 times |
וּשְׁתַּ֧יִםand two
ushetayimH8147 →768 times
דְּלָת֛וֹתdoors
delatotH1817 →88 times
לַֽהֵיכָ֖ל[belonged] to the temple
laheikhalH1964 →80 times
וְלַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃and to the holy place
velakodeshH6944 →469 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 41:1Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each 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,
- Ezekiel 40:2–3
In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.
- Ezekiel 41:21
The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
- Revelation 11:1–2
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.
- Revelation 21:15
The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
- Ezekiel 40:17
Through
2 Chronicles 4:22the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 6:31–32
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
- 1 Kings 7:50
the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors…
- 2 Kings 12:13
However, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the…
- 1 Kings 6:31–32
About Ezekiel
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.