Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 40:24
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the porches thereof according to these measures.
24. and the arches ] the porch. LXX. more fully: he measured the guardrooms thereof and the posts &c., as Eze 40:29 ; Eze 40:33 ; Eze 40:36.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 24. According to these measures.] The same measures that had been used at the eastern court.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Having finished the measuring of the east gate, and showed the prophet the sameness of the north gates buildings, measures, and ornaments, now he is informed of the south gate, and its exact symmetry with the other two, which consult in Eze 40:5-11.
The south; the south point of heaven.
A gate toward the south; south part of the house.
The posts and the arches: see Eze 40:16,21,22.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
20-27. The different approachescorresponded in plan. In the case of these two other gates, however,no mention is made of a building with thirty chambers such as wasfound on the east side. Only one was needed, and it was assigned tothe east as being the sacred quarter, and that most convenientlysituated for the officiating priests.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
After that he brought me toward the south,…. Having taken the dimensions of the east and north gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the building:
and behold a gate toward the south; that led to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward court there, exactly like the other two; there was no difference in them, which raised the prophet’s wonder and attention; for, as Lipman k says, there was no outward court in the second temple, but to the east of the inward; and it did not encompass the other sides; and so the more wonderful:
and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according, to these measures; the measures of the east and north gates, which were just alike; for these all signified but one gateway or door into the church below, into heaven above, or into the presence of God here and hereafter, which is Christ, Joh 14:6.
k Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 17.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 40:24. According to these measures According to the same measure: that is to say, the same which had been used in the eastern court. See Wall’s Critical Notes, and Houbigant.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 40:24-27
24Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate toward the south; and he measured its side pillars and its porches according to those same measurements. 25The gate and its porches had windows all around like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits. 26There were seven steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had palm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side. 27The inner court had a gate toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
these measures. This phrase is repeated in verses: Eze 40:28, Eze 40:29, Eze 40:32, Eze 28:33, Eze 28:35. showing the conformity of the whole plan.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
and behold: Eze 40:6, Eze 40:20, Eze 40:35, Eze 46:9
and he: Eze 40:21, Eze 40:28, Eze 40:29, Eze 40:33, Eze 40:35, Eze 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
Reciprocal: Eze 42:1 – he brought
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 40:24. The parts of the structure described in this verse were similar to those stated in verse 21, which is indicated by, according to these measures.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 40:24-26. After that he brought me to the south, &c. The prophet having shown, by way of parenthesis, in the 23d verse, the exact correspondence between the gates of both courts, proceeds in these three verses to describe the south gate of the outer court, by the same dimensions he had before given of the east and north gate.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The measuring man took Ezekiel to the south side of the wall where he discovered the same arrangement that he had seen on the east and north sides.