Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 40:48
And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured [each] post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate [was] three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
48. post of the porch ] The “post” is as before the front or jamb of the advancing wall on each side of the entrance. This wall was 5 cubits thick. Fig. 2, ab.
breadth of the gate was three cubits ] The “gate” here means the two bits of wall (N. to S.) on either side, the fronts of which formed the posts or jambs of the entrance, Fig. 2, bh. The language is brief; LXX. either read or judged that the reading should be: and the breadth of the entrance was fourteen cubits, and the side pieces of the entrance of the porch were three cubits on one side and three cubits, &c. These measures are correct and probably original, for 14 (entrance, Fig. 2, aa, bb) + 6 (3 + 3) = 20 the extent of the porch N. to S. ( Eze 40:49).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Eze 40:48 to Eze 41:4. Measurements of the Temple house, in its three parts, porch, holy place and most holy place
48, 49. The porch. Fig. 2, A.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The Porch of the House. The front of the temple-porch (see G, Plan I) consisted of a central opening with two columns on either side. Two columns with the space between them were called a post of the gate. The breadth of the gate on either side was a side opening, that is, the opening between two columns. The columns having bases of a cubit square, two columns and the breadth of the gate, which we are told was three cubits, made up the five cubits on either side the central entrance, which, like the entrance into the temple itself, was ten cubits. Thus we have twenty cubits for the porch-front.
Eze 40:49
The porch of Solomons Temple was twenty cubits broad and ten deep 1Ki 6:3. This corresponds nearly with the dimensions of Ezekiels porch; the difference in the breadth may be explained by supposing a space of one cubit in front of the porch (as Eze 40:11-12). The circumstance of this porch being approached by stairs of probably ten steps makes this more probable, a small space in front of the porch being naturally required.
Pillars by the posts – literally, to the posts, meaning that upon the bases (posts) stood shafts (pillars). These shafts were probably in the form of palm-trees Eze 40:16. The porch with its steps must have jutted into the inner court.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 48. Breadth of the gate] It is evident that the gate was a bivalve, or had folding doors. The length of the porch was twenty cubits. Josephus says the vestibule was twenty cubits long and ten broad. Antiq. lib. viii. 3, 2.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He brought me, from the measuring the building and court, to the porch of the house, that porch which joined to the temple, and was part of the house.
Each post of the porch; the post or wall on each side of the gate. The thickness or space between the outside of the wall and the inside of the wall was five cubits on each side, north and south, if we suppose the breadth of the porch from north to south, and the length from east to west. The whole breadth was eleven cubits, but the breadth of each leaf of this folding gate was three cubits, and they met, or shut, on an upright post, set in the middle of the gatespace, and this one cubit broad; and then each leaf hanged on posts two cubits thick; which amount to eleven cubits.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
48, 49. These two verses belongto the forty-first chapter, which treats of the temple itself.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And he brought me to the porch of the house,…. Having passed through the inner court, and measured that, he came to the body of the fabric, the principal part of it, the house or temple; to the porch that led into it. Here of right a new chapter should begin, for this and the next verse more properly “belong” to the following chapter. This porch was a large roof, and was a covering both from cold winds and storms, and from the scorching heat of the sun; and was an emblem of Christ, the hiding place from the wind, and the covert from the tempest of divine justice and vengeance, and the wrath of God; and from the heat of a fiery law, of Satan’s fiery darts or temptations, and of the persecutions of men: it was also, as is thought, a place for the priests to pray in, before they went into the temple; as Christ is the way in which the priests of the Lord go unto him, and pray before him; in whose name, and for whose righteousness sake, they present their supplications to him.
And measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side; these posts stood, one on the north side of the porch, and the other on the south, and were each five cubits thick:
and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side; this gate signifies Christ, the door, or gate, or way of entrance into the spiritual temple the church, Joh 10:1 and it had two leaves, that on the north was three cubits broad, and that on the south was of the same measure: this two leaved gate may show, that both Jews and Gentiles, being converted, may enter into the Gospel church; as they will in the latter day, when the Jews shall be called, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in; here will be an open door set; the gate will be wide enough to let them all in, Re 3:8.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The Temple-Porch
(see Plate III A). The measuring angel conducts the prophet still farther to the porch of the temple, and measures its breadth and length. – Eze 40:48. And he led me to the porch of the house, and measured the pillar of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the breadth of the gate, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. Eze 40:49. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and that by the steps by which one went up; and columns were by the pillars, one on this side and one on that side. – is the temple in the more restricted sense of the word, the temple-house, as in 1Ki 6:2, etc.; and , the porch before the entrance into the holy place (cf. 1Ki 6:3). The measurements in Eze 40:48 and Eze 40:49, which are apparently irreconcilable with one another, led the lxx to the adoption of arbitrary interpolations and conjectures in Eze 40:49, in accordance with which Bttcher, Hitzig, and others have made corrections in the text, which have a plausible justification in the many artificial and for the most part mistaken interpretations that have been given of the text. The measures in Eze 40:49 are perfectly plain, namely, the length of the porch twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and there is no question that these measurements are to be understood in the clear, that is to say, as referring to the internal space, excluding the side-walls, as in the case of the holy place, the most holy place, and the inner court. The only question is whether the length signifies the dimension from east to west, i.e., the distance which had to be traversed on entering the temple, and therefore the breadth, the extent from north to south; or whether we are to understand by the length the larger dimension, and by the breadth the smaller, in which case the measurement from north to south, which formed the breadth of the house, would be designated the length of the porch, and that from east to west the breadth. Nearly all the commentators have decided in favour of the latter view, because, in the porch of Solomon’s temple, the length of twenty cubits was measured according to the breadth of the house. But the fact has been overlooked, that in 1Ki 6:3 the length given is more precisely defined by the clause, “in front of the breadth of the house.” There is no such definition here, and the analogy of the building of Solomon’s temple is not sufficient in itself to warrant our regarding the construction of the porch in the temple seen by Ezekiel as being precisely the same; since it was only in the essential portions, the form of which was of symbolical significance (the holy place and the most holy), that this picture of a temple resembled the temple of Solomon, whereas in those which were less essential it differed from that temple in various ways. At the very outset, therefore, the more probable assumption appears to be, that just as in the case of the holy place and the holy of holies, so also in that of the porch, we are to understand by the length, the distance to be traversed (from east to west), and by the breadth, the extension on either side (i.e., from south to north).
If, then, we understand the measurements in Eze 40:49 in this way, the measures given in Eze 40:48 may also be explained without any alterations in the text. The measuring of the pillar of the porch on either side, and of the gate on this side and that (Eze 40:48), is sufficient of itself to lead to the conclusion that the front turned toward a person entering is the breadth from south to north. This breadth presented to the eye a pillar on this side and one on that – two pillars, therefore, each five cubits broad ( c c), and a breadth of gate of three cubits on this side and three on that, six cubits in all ( b), that is to say, a total breadth ( k-k) of 5 + 3 + 3 + 5 = 16 cubits. The only thing that can surprise one here is the manner in which the breadth of the gate is defined: three cubits on this side and that, instead of simply six cubits. But the only reason in all probability is, that the pillars on either side are mentioned just before, and the gate of six cubits’ breadth consisted of two halves, which had their hinges fastened to the adjoining pillars, so that each half was measured by itself from the pillar to which it was attached. The breadth of front mentioned, viz., sixteen cubits, agrees very well with the breadth of the porch inside, i.e., eleven cubits ( m-m), for it allows a thickness of two cubits and a half for each side wall ( a), and this was sufficient for the walls of a porch. The pillars, which were five cubits broad on the outer face, were therefore only half that breadth (2 1/2 cubits) in the inner side within the porch, the other two cubits and a half forming the side wall. All the particulars given in Eze 40:48 may be explained in this way without any artifice, and yield a result the proportions of which are in harmony with those of the entire building. For the porch, with an external breadth of sixteen cubits, was half as broad as the house, which had a breadth of twenty cubits in the clear, and side walls of six cubits in thickness (Eze 41:5), so that when measured on the outside it was 6 + 20 + 6 = 32 cubits broad. The breadth of the interior also is apparently perfectly appropriate, as the porch was not intended either for the reception of vessels or for the abode of individuals, but was a simple erection in front of the entrance into the holy place, the door of which ( d) was ten cubits broad (Eze 41:2), that is to say, half a cubit narrower on either side than the porch-way leading to it. And lastly, the length of the porch was also in good proportion to the holy place, which followed the porch; the porch being twenty cubits long, and the holy place forty cubits. If we add to this the front wall, with a thickness of two cubits and a half, corresponding to that of the side walls, we obtain an external length of twenty-two cubits and a half for the porch. In front were the steps by which one went up to the porch ( l). It is generally supposed that there were ten steps, the after being changed into (ten) after the example of the lxx. But however this alteration may commend itself when the facts of the case are considered, ten steps in front of the porch answering very well to the eight steps before the gateway of the inner court, and to the seven steps in front of the gateway of the outer court, it is not absolutely necessary, and in all probability is merely a conjecture of the Seventy, who did not know what to do with , and possibly it is not even correct (see at Eze 41:8). The words can be attached without difficulty to the preceding account of the breadth: “the breadth was eleven cubits, and that at the steps by which they went up to it,” i.e., when measured on the side on which the flight of steps stood. If the words are taken in this way, they serve to remove all doubt as to the side which is designated as the breadth, with special reference to the fact that the porch of Solomon’s temple was constructed in a different manner. The number of steps, therefore, is not given, as was also the case with the east gate of the outer court (Eze 40:6), because it was of no essential importance in relation to the entire building. The last statement, “and there were columns by the pillars on this side and on that,” is free from difficulty, although there is also a difference of opinion among the commentators as to the position of these columns. points back to (Eze 40:48). The preposition does not imply that the columns stood close to the pillars, and had the form of half-columns, but simply that they stood near the pillars (see Plate III K), like the columns Jachin and Boaz in Solomon’s temple, to which they correspond.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
THE PORCH OF THE TEMPLE Verses 48, 49:
Verse 48 asserts that this measuring architect or engineer of the temple led Ezekiel to the porch of the house of the Lord and measured the post of the porch, as extending five cubits on either side of the porch. The breadth of the gate was given as three cubits on each side. Both this verse and the following actually belong to chapter 41 where the temple description is given.
Verse 49 describes the length of the porch to the twenty cubits and the breadth eleven cubits. He was then led to the ten steps ascending to the temple or house of the Lord. And there were pillars, one on opposite sides, as one went up to that of the temple, 1Ki 6:3; 1Ki 7:1.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
D. The Sacred House 40:48-41:26
TRANSLATION
(48)Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. (49) The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps whereby they went Up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. (1) And he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. (2) And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. (3) Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. (4) 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. (5) Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. (6) And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the house. (7) And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middle chamber. (8) I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. (9) The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers, that belonged to the house. (10) And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. (11) And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. (12) And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. (13) So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; (14) also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. (15) And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; (16) the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered) (17) to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. (18) And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; (19) so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side: thus was it made through all the house round about. (20) From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made: thus was the wall of the temple. (21) As for the temple, the floorposts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance thereof was as the appearance of the temple. (22) The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. (23) And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. (24) And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other. (25) And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch with out. (26) 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.
COMMENTS
1. The porch of the house (Eze. 40:48-49). Ten steps led up to the porch or vestibule of the house (Eze. 40:49) on the east front of the Temple. Pillars are mentioned in connection with the porch. They correspond to the famous pillars, Jachin and Boaz, which decorated the porch of Solomons Temple (Eze. 40:49; cf. 1Ki. 7:21). The gate to the Temple proper was supported by two massive posts (Eze. 40:48).
2. The holy place of the house (Eze. 41:1-2). Walking westward through the porch Ezekiel came to the entrance of the holy place which is called the tabernacle or tent (Eze. 40:1) because the posts were shaped like an arch at the top like a tent.[505] The holy place that area between the porch and the holy of holies was forty cubits long and twenty cubits wide (Eze. 40:2).
[505] Fisch, SBB, p. 279.
3. The holy of holies (Eze. 41:3-4). Only the angel entered the holy of holies (Eze. 40:3). The entrance to the holy of holies was but seven cubits wide. The entrance ways became progressively more narrow as the prophet moved from the less to the more sacred precincts of the building (Eze. 40:2; cf. Eze. 40:48). The holy of holies was twenty cubits square (Eze. 40:4).
4. The side chambers (Eze. 41:5-12). Attached to the wall of the Temple on three sides were side-chambers in three stories. The chambers of the second story were slightly larger than those on the ground floor, while those of the third story were still larger. This was possible because of rebatements in the wall (Eze. 40:7). There were thirty-three side-chambers in all. Along the back or west wall there were three large chambers, one on each of the three levels. There were fifteen along the south wall, and fifteen along the north wall, five chambers on each tier. The wall of the Temple was six cubits thick at the base; but at two points it diminished as it ascended. These rebatements served as supports for the beams of the second and third stories (Eze. 40:6). The uppermost story was reached by a spiral staircase from the ground floor which passed through the middle tier (Eze. 40:7). A thick wall surrounded the chambers on the outside. Thus, the chambers were constructed between two massive walls (Eze. 40:9). Between these side-chambers and the chambers of the priests mentioned in Eze. 40:44-46 was a space of twenty cubits called in KJV the separate place and in the RSV the temple yard (Eze. 40:10). The side-chambers were entered from without through two doors, one in the north wall, the other in the south wall. These probably were located at the mid-point of the wall. Connecting doors made passage from one chamber to another possible (Eze. 40:11).
5. The hinder building (Eze. 41:12). At the rear of the Temple was a large separate building (70 by 90 cubits) which probably served as a storage area.
6. The total dimensions of the house (Eze. 41:13-15 a). The total length of the Temple from east to west, from the wall of the porch to the back western wall, was one hundred cubits[506] (Eze. 40:13 a). The pavement and building at the rear of the Temple extended westward another one hundred cubits[507] (Eze. 40:13 b). The front of the Temple along with its yard was one hundred cubits (Eze. 40:14).[508] The overall breadth of the building at the rear of the Temple was also one hundred cubits (Eze. 40:15).[509] Galleries or balconies were built along the outside of the wall (Eze. 40:15).
[506] Jamb 5 (Eze. 40:48) + vestibule 12 (Eze. 40:49) + jamb 6 (Eze. 41:1) + holy place 40 (Eze. 41:2) + jamb 2 (Eze. 41:3) + holy of holies 20 (Eze. 41:4) + wall 6 (Eze. 41:5) + side-chambers 4 (Eze. 41:5) + outer wall 5 (Eze. 41:9) = 103.
[507] Yard 20 (Eze. 41:10) + building 70 (Eze. 41:12) + two walls of building 10 (Eze. 41:12) = 100.
[508] The Temple yard to the north and south 40; the paved areas to north and south 10; the two outer walls of side-chambers 10; the two side-chambers 8, the north and south walls of the house 12 and the interior of the house 20 = 100.
[509] Interior breadth of the room, 90: two side walls, 10 = 100.
7. The interior of the Temple (Eze. 41:15 b – Eze. 41:26). The holy place, holy of holies and the porches of the court all had jambs, narrow windows and balconies (Eze. 40:15 b). The stone walls were covered with paneling from floor to ceiling (Eze. 40:16-17). As in Solomons Temple (1Ki. 6:29), the wooden panels were decorated with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees (Eze. 40:18) from floor to ceiling (Eze. 40:20). These cherubim had two faces that of a man and that of a lion which were turned in opposite directions. Each palm-tree was between the human face of one cherub and the lions face of another cherub (Eze. 40:19). The jambs or doorposts of the Temple were square rather than round (Eze. 40:21).
Eze. 40:22 describes one of the pieces of furniture of the holy place. Opinions differ as to whether the altar of incense is being described metaphorically as a table,[510] or the table of showbread is being described metaphorically as an altar.[511]
[510] Fisch, .SBB, p. 285,
[511] Taylor, TOTC, p. 263,
The holy place and the holy of holies each had a double door (Eze. 40:23) and each door had two leaves which could be folded back independently (Eze. 40:24). It would be possible for a door to be opened only a quarter of the full width of the entrance. The doors, like the walls, were decorated with cherubim and palm trees (Eze. 40:25).
Beams[512] extended before the porch making a kind of overhang (Eze. 40:25).
[512] Meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. RSV renders it canopy; KJV planks.
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
48. With this verse the description of the house or temple begins. Toy, following the Greek text, renders, “Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch on each side five cubits thick; the width of the entrance was fourteen cubits, and the jambs of the entrance were three cubits wide on each side.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘Then he brought me to the porch of the house and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side, and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, even by the steps where they ascended to it. And there were pillars by the posts, one on this side and one on that side.’
We are now approaching the sanctuary, and the first thing we reach is the porch or vestibule of the sanctuary. The steps demonstrate that the sanctuary was on a further raised platform, denoting its increased holiness. LXX says that there were ten steps leading up to it. The increase in the number of steps would also tie in with the increasing holiness of the place.
The twenty cubits was what we would call the breadth, but the Israelites always called the longest measurement ‘the length’ (strictly in fact the translation is therefore inexact in our terms). The pillars probably had a similar purpose to the free-standing decorated bronze pillars of Solomon’s temple named Jachin and Boaz (1Ki 7:15-22). There is considerable evidence for free-standing columns at the entrance to temple sanctuaries.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured [each] post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate [was] three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
Ver. 48. The porch of the house. ] Which was covered over-head, to keep them dry in foul weather. What Christ doth for all his. See Isa 4:5-6 ; Isa 25:4 . See Trapp on “ Isa 25:4 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 40:48-49
48Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side. 49The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.
Eze 40:49 and the width eleven cubits The Septuagint has twelve cubits, which seems to fit the overall structure better.
at the stairway by which it was ascended The Septuagint adds ten steps.
the sacred pillars This seems to refer to the two free-standing pillars in the front of Solomon’s temple, which were called Jachin and Boaz (cf. 2Ki 7:15-20; 2Ch 3:17).
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
porch = vestibule.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
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. 1Ki 6:3, 2Ch 3:4
Reciprocal: 1Ki 7:21 – the porch 1Ch 28:11 – the porch Eze 41:24 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 40:48. He brought me means the man introduced in verse 3 who was conducting this inspection tour for the information of Ezekiel, Porch of the house means an entry to the main building. It had large posts or col-umns on each side, seveii and a half feet in thickness, for strength and massiveness in appearance.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 40:48-49. And measured each post of the porch By the posts are meant the side-posts, or columns, on each side of the door of entrance: see Eze 40:9; these were measured to be five cubits thick, both on the north and south sides. And the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, &c. Two doors, of three cubits wide, opening each way, formed the entrance; these, with five on each side, called the posts of the porch, amount to sixteen cubits; and the other four may be supposed to have been the distance from these posts to the outside of the walls of the temple. Scott.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 40:48 to Eze 41:4. This consisted of three parts: (a) the porchwith a pillar on either side of itreached by a flight of steps (Eze 40:48 f.; in Eze 40:49, for eleven read, with LXX, twelve); (b) the nave or large inner room beyond it (the holy place), whose name, temple, was often applied to the whole structure; (c) beyond that the mysterious most holy place (half the length of the holy place), where Yahweh dwells, and only the supernatural guide (but not Ezekiel) is permitted to enter (Eze 41:3 f.).
Fuente: Peake’s Commentary on the Bible
The temple entrance 40:48-49
The walls that supported the doorframes leading into the vestibule of the temple were five cubits (8 feet 4 inches) deep on each side of the opening. Some medieval cathedrals in Europe also have massive, ornate entryways. These walls protruded three cubits (5 feet) from the side walls of the temple on each side. The vestibule itself was 20 cubits (33 feet 4 inches) wide and 11 cubits (18 feet 4 inches) deep. The Hebrew text always calls the longer measurement the length, regardless of its orientation. Two columns (pillars) stood at the top of the stairs on either side of the entrance to the vestibule (cf. 1Ki 7:16-20).
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)
The temple and its outbuilding 40:48-41:26
It is interesting to compare this temple with the one that Solomon built (1 Kings 6-7). There are similarities but also significant differences.