VW-Edition Bible (2010)

1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on the very same day the hand of Jehovah was upon me; and He brought me there. 2In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and rested me on a very high mountain; on which toward the south was something like the structure of a city. 3He brought me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gate.  4And the man said to me, Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you; for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel everything you see. 5Now there was a wall all around the outside of the house. In the man's hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the structure, one rod; and the height, one rod. 6Then he went to the gate which faced east; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod wide. 7Each guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; between the guardrooms was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the inside gate was one rod. 8He also measured the porch of the inside gate, one rod. 9Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the pillars, two cubits. The porch of the gate was on the inside. 10And in the eastward gate were three guardrooms on one side and three on the other; the three were all the same size; also the pillars were of the same size on this side and that side. 11He measured the width of the entrance to the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12And the space in front of the guardrooms was one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the guardrooms were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side. 13Then he measured the gate from the roof of one guardroom to the roof of the other; the width was twenty-five cubits, as door faces door. 14He measured the pillars, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gate extended to the pillar. 15From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the porch of the inner gate was fifty cubits. 16And there were shuttered windows in the guardrooms and in their pillars on the inside of the gate all around, and likewise in the arches. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each pillar were palm trees. 17Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were rooms and a pavement made all around the court; thirty rooms faced the pavement. 18The pavement was by the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement. 19Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court exterior, one hundred cubits toward the east and the north. 20On the outer court was also a gate facing north, and he measured its length and its width. 21Its guardrooms, three on this side and three on that side, its pillars and its arches, had the same measurements as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 22Its windows and those of its porches, and also its palm trees, had the same measurements as the gate facing east; they went up to it by seven steps, and its arches were in front of it. 23And the gate of the inner court was opposite the northern gate, just as the eastern gate; and he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits. 24After that he brought me toward the south, and there a gate was facing south; and he measured its pillars and arches according to these same measurements. 25There were windows in it and its arches all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 26Seven steps led up to it, and its arches were in front of them; and it had palm trees on its pillars, one on this side and one on that side. 27There was also a gate on the inner court, facing south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits. 28Then he brought me to the inner court through the southern gate; and he measured the southern gate according to these same measurements. 29And its guardrooms, its pillars, and its arches were according to these same measurements; there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 30There were arches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide. 31And its arches faced the outer court, palm trees were on its pillars, and going up to it were eight steps. 32And he brought me into the inner court facing east; he measured the gate according to these same measurements. 33Also its guardrooms, its pillars, and its arches were according to these same measurements; and there were windows in it and in its arches all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. 34Its arches faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its pillars on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps. 35And he brought me to the north gate and measured it according to these same measurements; 36also its guardrooms, its pillars, and its arches. It had windows all around; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits. 37Its pillars faced the outer court, palm trees were on its pillars on this side and on that side, and going up to it were eight steps. 38There was a room and its entrance by the pillars of the gate, where they washed the burnt offering. 39In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. 40At the outer side of the porch, as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gate, were two tables; and on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables. 41Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices. 42There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43Inside were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around; and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables. 44Outside the inner gate were the rooms for the singers in the inner court, one facing south beside the northern gate, and the other facing north beside the southern gate. 45Then he said to me, This room which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the house. 46The room which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near Jehovah to serve Him. 47And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare. And the altar was in front of the house. 48And he brought me to the porch of the house and measured the pillars of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. 49The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it there were columns by the pillars, one on this side and another on that side.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Ezek 40:1 The time, manner, and end of the vision of the city and temple.
Ezek 40:6 The description of the east gate of the outer court;
Ezek 40:20 of the north gate;
Ezek 40:24 of the south gate;
Ezek 40:27 of the south gate of the inner court;
Ezek 40:32 of the east gate;
Ezek 40:35 and of the north gate.
Ezek 40:39 Eight tables.
Ezek 40:44 The chambers.
Ezek 40:48 The porch of the house.
In the five. On Tuesday, April 20.
Ezek 1:2 Ezek 8:1 Ezek 29:17 Ezek 32:1 Ezek 32:17
after.
Ezek 33:21 2Kgs 25:1 - 2Kgs 25:30 Jer 39:1 - Jer 39:18 Jer 52:1 - Jer 52:34
selfsame.
Exod 12:41
hand.
Ezek 1:3 Ezek 3:14 Ezek 3:22 Ezek 11:24 Ezek 37:1 Rev 1:10

 2   the visions. There can be little doubt, that the grand outlines of the description of the temple, in the following extraordinary vision, were taken from that of Solomon's, with all the additions made to it in after ages; and we may suppose that Zerubbabel and the other Jews had respect to it, as far as circumstances would permit, in rebuilding the temple after the captivity. There are, however, many circumstances which conclusively shew, that something infinitely superior to either the first or second temple was intended; and that the external description must be considered as a figure and emblem of spiritual blessings. Probably the more immediate accomplishment of the prophecy will be subsequent to the conversion and restoration of the Jews, the destruction of Gog and Magog, and the pouring out of the Spirit, mentioned at the close of the last chapter; but whether there will be any external forms analogous to these cannot be determined, though in some respects it seems improbable.
Ezek 1:1 Ezek 8:3 Dan 7:1 Dan 7:7 Acts 2:17 Acts 16:9 2Cor 12:1 - 2Cor 12:7
a very.
Ezek 17:22 Ezek 17:23 Isa 2:2 Isa 2:3 Dan 2:34 Dan 2:35 Mic 4:1 Rev 21:10
by. or, upon. as the.
Ezek 48:30 - Ezek 48:35 Gal 4:26 Rev 21:10 - Rev 21:23
frame.
1Chr 28:12 1Chr 28:19
on the south.
Isa 48:2 Isa 14:13

 3   whose.
Ezek 1:7 Ezek 1:27 Dan 10:5 Dan 10:6 Rev 1:15
with.
Ezek 47:3 Isa 8:20 Isa 28:17 Zech 2:1 Zech 2:2 Rev 11:1 Rev 21:15

 4   behold.
Ezek 2:7 Ezek 2:8 Ezek 3:17 Ezek 43:10 Ezek 44:5 Matt 10:27 Matt 13:9 Matt 13:51 Matt 13:52
declare.
Isa 21:10 Jer 26:2 Acts 20:27 1Cor 11:23

 5   a wall.
Ezek 42:20 Ps 125:2 Isa 26:1 Isa 60:18 Zech 2:5 Rev 21:12
by.
Deut 3:11
so he.
Ezek 42:20

 6   unto.
Ezek 40:20 Ezek 8:16 Ezek 11:1 Ezek 43:1 Ezek 44:1 Ezek 46:1 Ezek 46:12 1Chr 9:18 1Chr 9:24 Neh 3:29 Jer 19:2
which looketh. Heb. whose face was the way. stairs.
Ezek 40:26 1Kgs 6:8
threshold.
Ezek 10:18 Ezek 43:8 Ezek 46:2 Ezek 47:1 Ps 84:10
*marg:
Ezek 40:6
one reed.
Ezek 40:5 Ezek 40:7

 7   Ezek 42:5 1Kgs 6:5 - 1Kgs 6:10 1Chr 9:26 1Chr 23:28 2Chr 3:9 2Chr 31:11 Ezra 8:29 Jer 35:4

 8   Ezek 40:8

 9   the posts.
Ezek 45:19

 10   the little.
Ezek 40:7
they three. The entrance into the outer court seems to have been through a porch with doors at both ends; and on each side of this porch were three small chambers, or rooms, for the use of the porters, a reed square in size, with a passage of five cubits between them. The common cubit, termed the "cubit of a man," (Deut 3:11,) was about 18 inches; but the cubit used by the angel was, as we learn from ch. 43:13 Ezek 43:13, "a cubit and a hand breadth," or about three inches more than the common cubit, that is 21 inches. Hence the measuring reed, which was "six cubits long, by the cubit and the hand breadth," (ver. 5,) must have been about 10+ feet


 11   Ezek 40:11

 12   space. Heb. limit, or bound.
Ezek 40:12

 13   the gate. The whole arch of the east gate, measured from the southern extremity of one room to the northern extremity of the opposite room, was 25 cubits; including the dimensions of the two rooms, or twelve cubits, (ver. 7;) the spaces before the rooms, or two cubits, (ver. 12;) and the breadth of the entrance, ten cubits, (ver. 11;) making all 24 cubits, leaving one cubit for the thickness of the walls.
Ezek 40:13

 14   the court.
Ezek 8:7 Ezek 42:1 Exod 27:9 Exod 35:17 Lev 6:16 1Chr 28:6 Ps 100:4 Isa 62:9

 15   the face of the gate. This was the whole length of the porch, from the outward front, (ch. 41:21, 25, Ezek 41:21, Ezek 41:25) to the inner side which looks into the first court, (ver. 17,) including the thickness of the walls, (ver. 6,) chambers, (ver. 7,) and spaces between them.
Ezek 40:15

 16   narrow. Heb. closed.
Ezek 41:16 1Kgs 6:4 1Cor 13:12
the little.
Ezek 40:7 Ezek 40:12
arches. or, galleries, or porches.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:25 Ezek 40:30 Ezek 41:15 Ezek 42:3 John 5:2
inward. or, within. palm trees.
1Kgs 6:29 1Kgs 6:32 1Kgs 6:35 2Chr 3:5 Ps 92:12 Rev 7:9

 17   the outward.
Ezek 10:5 Ezek 42:1 Ezek 46:21 Rev 11:2
there were.
1Kgs 6:5 1Chr 9:26 1Chr 23:28 2Chr 31:11
thirty.
Ezek 42:4 Ezek 45:5

 18   Ezek 40:18

 19   unto the.
Ezek 40:23 Ezek 40:27 Ezek 46:1 Ezek 46:2
without. or, from without.


 20   the gate.
Ezek 40:6
that looked. Heb. whose face was.


 21   the little.
Ezek 40:7 Ezek 40:10 - Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:29 Ezek 40:30 Ezek 40:36 Ezek 40:37
arches. or, galleries, or porches.
Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:26 Ezek 40:30 Ezek 40:34
after.
Ezek 40:8 Ezek 40:10 Ezek 40:13 Ezek 40:15 Ezek 40:25 Ezek 40:29

 22   palm trees.
Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:37 1Kgs 6:29 1Kgs 6:32 1Kgs 6:35 1Kgs 7:36 2Chr 3:5 Rev 7:9
and they.
Ezek 40:6 Ezek 40:26 Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:34 Ezek 40:37 Ezek 40:49 Heb 6:1
before them. Or, "suitable to them," that is, to the arches of the east gate. The north gate into the outward court, and every thing belonging to it, were exactly the same as the east gate.


 23   the gate of. That is, the gate of the inner court was opposite, and exactly answered to the gate of the outward court, both on the north and east side; and between the gates of the outward and inner court was a space of an hundred cubits.
Ezek 40:19 Ezek 40:27 Ezek 40:28 Ezek 40:44
and he.
Exod 27:9 - Exod 27:18 Exod 38:9 - Exod 38:12

 24   and behold.
Ezek 40:6 Ezek 40:20 Ezek 40:35 Ezek 46:9
and he.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:28 Ezek 40:29 Ezek 40:33 Ezek 40:35 Ezek 40:36
according. That is, according to the measures of the eastern and northern gates. There does not appear to have been any gates on the west, though the courts seem to have extended to the western wall


 25   windows.
Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:29 John 12:46 1Cor 13:12 2Pet 1:19
the length.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:33

 26   seven.
Ezek 40:6 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:29 2Pet 3:18
palm trees.
Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:22 Ps 92:12 Ps 92:13 Song 7:7 Song 7:8

 27   in the.
Ezek 40:23 Ezek 40:32
and he.
Ezek 40:19 Ezek 40:23 Ezek 40:47

 28   he brought. As the outward court inclosed the inner, the prophet was led from the south gate of the outward court to the south gate of the inner, which was opposite it, and so into the inner court itself.
according.
Ezek 40:32 Ezek 40:35

 29   the little. The entrance into the inner court seems to have been through a portico, exactly like that at each gate of the outward court; but the ascent was by eight steps, instead of seven.
Ezek 40:7 Ezek 40:10 Ezek 40:12 1Chr 28:11 1Chr 28:12 2Chr 31:11 Neh 13:5 Neh 13:9 Jer 35:2 - Jer 35:4 Jer 36:10
and there.
Ezek 40:16 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:25

 30   the arches. These are supposed to have been built over the spaces which separated the little chambers, or porters' lodges.
five and.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:25 Ezek 40:29 Ezek 40:33 Ezek 40:36
five cubits. Instead of five cubits, it seems evident, from the parallel places, that we should read twenty-five: the word ęsrim appears to have been lost out of the text.
broad. Heb. breadth.


 31   and palm.
Ezek 40:26 Ezek 40:34
eight.
Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:26 Ezek 40:34 Ezek 40:37

 32   into the.
Ezek 40:28 - Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:35

 33   it was.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:25 Ezek 40:36

 34   palm trees. That is, probably, the capital of each pillar was ornamented with sculpture, representing leaves or branches of the palm tree.
eight steps.
Ezek 40:6 Ezek 40:22 Ezek 40:26 Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:34 Ezek 40:37 Ezek 40:49

 35   to the.
Ezek 40:27 Ezek 40:32 Ezek 44:4 Ezek 47:2
measured. The north gate, as well as the east, was built in the same manner, and of the same dimensions, as the south gate. See the parallel passages.


 36   little.
Ezek 40:21 Ezek 40:29 Ezek 40:36

 37   the posts.
Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:34
the utter court. That is, "the outer court," as the word utter primarily denotes.


 38   the chambers.
Ezek 40:12 Ezek 41:10 Ezek 41:11 1Kgs 6:8
where. This place, where the legs and entrails of the sacrifices, especially of the burnt offerings, were washed, was just within the portico of the north entrance to the inner court, or court of the priests. An allusion to this is most probably made by the inspired apostle when writing his Epistle to the Hebrews, at the 10th chapter and 22nd verse Heb 10:22. "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
Lev 1:9 Lev 8:21 Heb 10:22

 39   tables on that.
Ezek 41:22 Ezek 44:16 Mal 1:7 Mal 1:12 Luke 22:30 1Cor 10:16 - 1Cor 10:21
the burnt.
Lev 1:3 - Lev 1:17
the sin.
Lev 4:2 Lev 4:3 Lev 4:13 - Lev 4:35 Isa 53:5 Isa 53:10 2Cor 5:21
the trespass.
Lev 5:6 - Lev 5:13 Lev 6:6 Lev 7:1 Lev 7:2

 40   at the side. Two tables were on each side, as you come into the porch of the gate; and two on each side of the inner part of the gate that looked towards the altar; in all eight tables, on which they slew and cut up the victims. It does not appear that any such tables were used either in the tabernacle or temple; and this seems to intimate the introduction of a new and more spiritual dispensation: See the referemces.
as one goeth up. or, at the step.
Ezek 40:35

 41   Ezek 40:41

 42   Ezek 40:42

 43   within. These were probably for hanging up the victims in order to flay them.
hooks. or, end-irons, or, the two hearth-stones. upon.
Lev 1:6 Lev 1:8 Lev 8:20

 44   the inner.
Ezek 40:23 Ezek 40:27
chambers.
Ezek 40:7 Ezek 40:10 Ezek 40:29 1Chr 6:31 1Chr 6:32 1Chr 16:41 - 1Chr 16:43 1Chr 25:1 - 1Chr 25:31 Eph 5:19 Col 3:16

 45   chamber. The word chamber probably here denotes a row of chambers, of which there seems to have been three: one for the singers; one for the priests who in their courses took charge of the sacred vessels and treasures; and one for the priests who attended on the altar and sacrifices.
whose.
Ezek 8:5
the keepers.
Lev 8:35 Num 3:27 Num 3:28 Num 3:32 Num 3:38 Num 18:5 1Chr 6:49 1Chr 9:23 2Chr 13:11 Ps 134:1 Mal 2:4 - Mal 2:7 1Tim 6:20 Rev 1:6
charge. or, ward, or, ordinance, and so ver.
Ezek 40:46

 46   the keepers.
Ezek 44:15 Lev 6:12 Lev 6:13 Num 18:5
these.
Ezek 43:19 Ezek 44:15 Ezek 48:11 1Kgs 2:35
which come.
Lev 10:3 Num 16:5 Num 16:40 Eph 2:13

 47   court. This was the inner court, or court of the priests, which was of the same dimensions with each division of the outer court; and the altar stood directly before the porch of the temple.
an hundred cubits long.
Ezek 40:19 Ezek 40:23 Ezek 40:27

 48   the porch. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, the same as the breadth of the temple, and the breadth eleven cubits, that is, one cubit more than in Solomon's temple. Two bivalve, or folding doors, each leaf of them being three cubits wide, seem to have formed the entrance; which, with five cubits, perhaps of brick or stone work, one each side, called "the post of the porch," amount to sixteen cubits; and the other four cubits may be supposed to have been the distance from these posts to the outside walls of the temple.
1Kgs 6:3 2Chr 3:4

 49   The steps. This was a flight of steps which led from the inner court into the temple.
Ezek 40:31 Ezek 40:34 Ezek 40:37
pillars.
1Kgs 7:15 - 1Kgs 7:21 2Chr 3:17 Jer 52:17 - Jer 52:23 Rev 3:12