Ezekiel 41:4 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 41:4

Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”

BSB

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ASV

And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

KJV

So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The length thereof, twenty cubits - This is the measurement of the sanctuary, or holy of holies. See G in the plan. This also was the exact measurement of Solomon’s temple, see 1Ki 6:20. This, and the other resemblances here, sufficiently prove that Ezekiel’s temple and that of Solomon were on the same plan; and that the latter temple was intended to be an exact resemblance of the former.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

For the new Jerusalem is exactly square ( Rev. xxi. 16 ), denoting its stability; for we look for a city that cannot be moved. The upper stories were larger than the lower,

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֨מָד	vai.Ya.mod	and he measured	H4058 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אָרְכּ֜וֹ	'a.re.Ko	length its	H753 →
עֶשְׂרִ֣ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
אַמָּ֗ה	'a.Mah	cubit[s]	H520 →
וְרֹ֛חַב	ve.Ro.chav	and [the] breadth	H7341 →
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים	'es.Rim	[was] twenty	H6242 →
אַמָּ֖ה	'a.Mah	cubit[s]	H520 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
הַֽהֵיכָ֑ל	ha.hei.Khal	the temple	H1964 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֵלַ֔י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
זֶ֖ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
קֹ֥דֶשׁ	Ko.desh	[is] [the] holy place of	H6944 →
הַקֳּדָשִֽׁים׃	ha.ko.da.Shim	the holy places	H6944 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 6:16
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:3
  Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 3:8
  Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
- 1 Kings 8:6
  Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- Leviticus 16:2
  And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he…
- Ezekiel 45:3
  From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Through
2 Chronicles 3:8
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
leads to
- Exodus 26:33
  And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kings 6:19–20
  Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- 1 Kings 6:16
  He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel