Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 40:13
He measured then the gate from the roof of [one] little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth [was] five and twenty cubits, door against door.
13. The gate building was 25 cubits across, i.e. from the outside N. to the outside S. The measurement is made from roof to roof of the guardrooms. LXX. read or substituted “wall” for roof. The meaning is clear. The measurement inside was three cubits less, viz. passage 10, a guardroom on each side 6 + 6, in all 22, leaving for each back wall 1 cubits, Eze 40:21 ; Eze 40:25 ; Eze 40:29.
door against door ] Or, opposite to door. Possibly each guardroom on both sides of the gateway had a door in the back wall opening into the outer court. Others less naturally suggest three doors of the gate lengthways, viz. that before first threshold, that before inner threshold, and the exit out of the porch.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He measured from the extremity of one little chamber on the north side of the gate, to the extremity of the opposite chamber on the south side; and so one cubit and half for the back wall of the one chamber, and as much for the back wall of the other chamber, with the length of the chambers six cubits each, and ten for the breadth of the gate, amounts to twenty-five cubits.
Door against door; either so placed, that the door of the first chamber on the north side answered to the door of the first on the south side; or some think the doors of the chambers were two in each chamber in the east and west parts, and so exactly set, that, the doors being all open, you had a clear prospect through all the chambers to the temple.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another,…. That is, the whole porch, from the extreme part of the roof of one of the little chambers on the north side, to the extreme part of the roof of another of the little chambers on the south; of the roof of these chambers, and the spiritual meaning of it,
[See comments on Eze 40:7]:
the breadth was five and twenty cubits; reckoning six cubits to one chamber on one side, and six to one chamber on the other side, which make twelve; and a cubit and a half to each back wall of the chambers on the north and south; or two cubits to the spaces before the chambers, and a cubit and a half to each of the caves of the chambers, which either way make fifteen cubits; and ten cubits the breadth of the gate; in all five and twenty cubits; or fourteen yards and three inches:
door against door; not the door of the outward gate against the door of the inward gate; nor the door of one of the little chambers at the east, to the door of another at the west, running lengthways, and so affording a sight quite through the temple; but the door of one of them on the north side over against the door of another on the south, they answering exactly to each other; which still more confirms the similarity and equality of Gospel churches; [See comments on Eze 40:7].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘And he measured the gate from the top of one side room to the top of another, a breadth of twenty five cubits, door to door.’
The twenty five cubits is possibly represented by adding the six cubits of two opposite side rooms, to the thirteen cubits which is ‘the breadth of the gate’ (i.e. of the inner corridor). Thus the important multiple of five, the covenant number, is maintained (the sixes and the thirteen being required for this reason). ‘Door to door’ might suggest a back door in the wall of each guard room leading into the outer court, so that the rooms could be entered or left by means of the outer court without using the main gateway.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 40:13 He measured then the gate from the roof of [one] little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth [was] five and twenty cubits, door against door.
Ver. 13. Door against door. ] The one facing the other in a direct line.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
door entrance.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
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 – Eze 40:7, the spaces before the rooms, or two cubits – Eze 40:12, and the breadth of the entrance, ten cubits – Eze 40:11, making all 24 cubits, leaving one cubit for the thickness of the walls. Eze 40:13
Reciprocal: Eze 40:21 – after
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 40:13. We usually think of a gate as meaning an opening in a fence or other external protective wall. The lexicon, however, defines it merely as an opening whether a gate or door. In the measurements of this verse the distance from one chamber to another lacked one cubit of being 4 reeds, and the doors were lined up so as to be directly facing each other.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 40:13-14. He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber, &c. Measuring the arch of the gate from north to south, it was in breadth twenty-five cubits, which is thus computed: the breadth of the gate ten cubits, the breadth of both the side walls thirteen cubits, and two cubits for the space or border on each side of the chambers, Eze 40:12. Door against door The door on each chamber exactly answered the door on the opposite side. He made also posts, &c. He described, or made a delineation of the height of the columns or pillars which were to support the rooms or stories over the arch of the gate; and these were in height sixty cubits. Even unto the posts of the court round about the gate It is supposed there is an ellipsis in these words, which may be thus supplied: And there was one measure to the pillars of the court, and of the gate round about; which makes the sense run plain and easy.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The interior width of the gate complex, measuring the ceiling above one guardroom, the hallway, and another guardroom, was 25 cubits (41 feet 8 inches; cf. Eze 40:21). Evidently there were doors in the walls of the guardrooms that covered windows or niches in those walls (cf. Eze 40:16; Eze 41:16).