Ezekiel 41:26
in Ezekiel 41There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
KJV
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
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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
beveled windows and palm trees
The palm trees reach the portico walls, so the tree appears at every stage from the porch to the inner room. The chapter ends with small details. Matthew Henry counsels patience with such terms, because the rules of building differ from age to age and the learned are not agreed.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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 there were narrow windows,.... See Eze 41:16, and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; upon the posts that were on each side the porch, north and south; Eze 40:16, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks; that is, there were palm trees upon the side chambers, which were in number thirty, Eze 41:6 and upon the planks also; every part of this fabric within and without were ornamented.
Thus the living temples are adorned, not with gold, or silver, or costly array, but with the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְחַלּוֹנִ֨ים | vechalonim | and windows | H2474 → | 31 times |
| אֲטֻמ֤וֹת | ʾatumot | closed | H331 → | 8 times |
| וְתִֽמֹרִים֙ | vetimorim | and palm trees | H8561 → | 19 times |
| מִפּ֣וֹ | mipo | from here | H6311 → | 82 times |
| וּמִפּ֔וֹ | umipo | and from here | H6311 → | 82 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| כִּתְפ֖וֹת | kitfot | [the] sides of | H3802 → | 67 times |
| הָֽאוּלָ֑ם | haulam | the porch | H197 → | 34 times |
| וְצַלְע֥וֹת | vetzalot | and [the] side-chambers of | H6763 → | 40 times |
| הַבַּ֖יִת | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃ | vehaubim | and the thresholds | H5646 → |
וְחַלּוֹנִ֨יםand windows
vechalonimH2474 →31 times
אֲטֻמ֤וֹתclosed
ʾatumotH331 →8 times
וְתִֽמֹרִים֙and palm trees
vetimorimH8561 →19 times
מִפּ֣וֹfrom here
mipoH6311 →82 times
וּמִפּ֔וֹand from here
umipoH6311 →82 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
כִּתְפ֖וֹת[the] sides of
kitfotH3802 →67 times
הָֽאוּלָ֑םthe porch
haulamH197 →34 times
וְצַלְע֥וֹתand [the] side-chambers of
vetzalotH6763 →40 times
הַבַּ֖יִתthe house
habayitH1004 →2046 times
וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃and the thresholds
vehaubimH5646 →
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 41:16as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 6:4
He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 40:25
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- 1 Kings 6:15
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- Ezekiel 40:16
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm…
- 1 Kings 6:4
Through
Ezekiel 40:16The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
- 1 Kings 6:32
The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
- Ezekiel 40:21–22
Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- 1 Kings 6:29
Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
About Ezekiel
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.