Then he abrought me to the bsanctuary, and he measured the cside pillars: six 1cubits wide on each side was the width of the 2side pillar.Each of these cubits equals about 21 in. or 53 cmAs in LXX; MT tentEzek 40:2, 3, 17Ezek 41:21, 23Ezek 40:9; 41:3 2 The width of the entrance was ten cubits and the 1sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured 2the length of the sanctuary, aforty cubits, and the width, btwenty cubits.Lit shouldersLit its length,1 Kin 6:2, 17; 2 Chr 3:3 3 Then he went 1ainside and measured each bside pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.I.e., of the inner sanctuaryEzek 40:16Ezek 41:1 4 And he measured its length, atwenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the bsanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the cMost Holy Place.”1 Kin 6:201 Kin 6:5Ex 26:33, 34; 1 Kin 6:16; 7:50; 8:6; 2 Chr 5:7; Heb 9:3-8
5 Then he measured the wall of the 1temple, six cubits; and the width of the aside chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side.Lit house, and so throughout the ch1 Kin 6:5; Ezek 41:6-11 6 aThe side chambers were in three stories, 1one above another, and 2thirty in each story; and 3the side chambers bextended to the wall which stood on 4their inward side all around, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.Lit chamber upon chamberLit thirty timesLit they were comingLit the inside of the side chambers1 Kin 6:5-101 Kin 6:6, 10 7 And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the astructure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the 1second story.Lit middle1 Kin 6:8 8 I saw also that the house had a raised 1platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full 2rod of asix 3long cubits in height.Lit heightLit reedOr to the jointEzek 40:5 9 The 1thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the afree space between the side chambers belonging to the templeLit widthEzek 41:11 10 and the outer achambers was twenty cubits in width around the temple on every side.Ezek 40:17 11 The 1doorways of the side 2chambers toward the afree space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the bfree space was five cubits all around.Lit doorwayLit chamberEzek 41:9
12 The abuilding that was in front of the bseparate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits 1thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.Lit wideEzek 41:13, 15; 42:1Ezek 41:14; 42:10, 13
13 Then he measured the temple, a ahundred cubits long; the bseparate area with the cbuilding and its walls were also a dhundred cubits long.Ezek 40:47Ezek 41:13-15; 42:1, 10, 13Ezek 41:12 14 Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate 1areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.Lit area
15 And he measured the length of the abuilding 1along the front of the bseparate area behind it, with a 2cgallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner sanctuary and the porches of the courtyard.Lit toOr passagewayEzek 41:12, 13; 42:1Ezek 41:14; 42:1, 10, 13Ezek 41:16; 42:3, 5 16 The athresholds, the 1blatticed windows, and the 2cgalleries all around their dthree stories, opposite the threshold, were epaneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),Or framedOr passagewaysIs 6:4; Ezek 10:18; 40:6; 41:251 Kin 6:4; Ezek 40:16, 25; 41:26Ezek 41:15Ezek 42:31 Kin 6:15 17 over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement. 18 It was 1carved with acherubim and bpalm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces:Lit made1 Kin 6:29, 32, 35; 7:36; Ezek 41:20, 252 Chr 3:5; Ezek 40:16 19 a ahuman face toward the palm tree on one side and a young blion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were 1carved on all the house all around.Lit madeEzek 1:10; 10:14 20 From the ground to above the entrance acherubim and bpalm trees were 1carved, as well as on the wall of the sanctuary.Lit madeEzek 41:18
21 The adoorposts of the bsanctuary were square; as for the front of the inner 1sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other.Lit holy place1 Kin 6:33; Ezek 40:9, 14, 16; 41:1Ezek 41:1 22 The aaltar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; its corners, its 1base, and its 2sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the btable that is before the LORD.”Lit lengthLit wallsEx 30:1-3; 1 Kin 6:20; Rev 8:3Ex 25:23, 30; Lev 24:6; Ezek 23:41; 44:16; Mal 1:7, 12 23 The asanctuary and the inner 1bsanctuary each had a double cdoor.Lit holy placeEzek 41:1Ezek 41:41 Kin 6:31-35 24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two 1aswinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.Or turning1 Kin 6:34 25 Also there were 1carved on them, on the doors of the main room, acherubim and bpalm trees like those 2carved on the walls; and there was a 3cthreshold of wood on the front of the porch outside.Lit madeOr canopy of wood overEzek 41:18Ezek 41:16 26 And there were 1alatticed windows and bpalm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the cporch; the same were on the dside chambers of the house and the 2thresholds.Or framedOr canopiesEzek 41:16Ezek 40:16Ezek 40:9, 48Ezek 41:5