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Ezekiel 41:24

in Ezekiel 41

and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves: two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

KJV

And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

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This verse in Ezekiel 41

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(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

two swinging panels

Jerome describes each door as two leaves that fold into each other, so a wide opening could be closed in narrower sections. Solomon's doors were made the same way (1 Kings 6:34). Matthew Henry grants that ancient building terms are often obscure and the learned disagree on them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves,....

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וּשְׁתַּ֥יִםand two

    ushetayimH8147 →768 times

  • דְּלָת֖וֹתleaves

    delatotH1817 →88 times

  • לַדְּלָת֑וֹת[belonged] to the doors

    ladelatotH1817 →88 times

  • שְׁ֚תַּיִםtwo

    shetayimH8147 →768 times

  • מוּסַבּ֣וֹתturning

    musabotH5437 →161 times

  • דְּלָת֔וֹתleaves

    delatotH1817 →88 times

  • שְׁ֚תַּיִםtwo [leaves]

    shetayimH8147 →768 times

  • לְדֶ֣לֶת[belonged] to a door

    ledeletH1817 →88 times

  • אֶחָ֔תone

    ʾechatH259 →971 times

  • וּשְׁתֵּ֥יand two

    usheteiH8147 →768 times

  • דְלָת֖וֹתleaves

    delatotH1817 →88 times

  • לָאַחֶֽרֶת׃[belonged] to the other [door]

    laacheretH312 →166 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

4 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

    1 Kings 6:34

    The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 41:23–25

      Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,

    • 1 Kings 5:8

      Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:48

    Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:3

      The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

    • 2 Chronicles 3:4

      The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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; 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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