{"id":21549,"date":"2022-09-24T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4112\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:04:03","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4112\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 41:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Now the building that [was] before the separate place at the end 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. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 12<\/strong>. The building behind the house on the west, Fig. 3, K<\/p>\n<p> To the west of the house proper, but divided from it by the 20 cubits of the &ldquo;separate place&rdquo; (Fig. 3, H), was a large building, 70 cubits broad (E. to W. Fig. 3, <em> rp, sq<\/em>), and 90 long (N. to S. Fig. 3, <em> rs, pq<\/em>) breadth being the smaller and length the larger dimension here. The wall of the building all round was 5 cubits thick. The measurements 70 and 90 are inside. The uses which this building served are not specified, they were probably general.<\/p>\n<p><em> before the separate place<\/em> ] i.e. the court of 20 cubits broad (Fig. 3, H), which ran round the house. &ldquo;Before&rdquo; is opposite to or facing.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>The separate place &#8211; <\/B>See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate (compare <span class='bible'>Eze 43:21<\/span>). The building itself was, we are told, seventy cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick (eighty cubits in all), leaving ten cubits on each side to make up the 100 cubits from north to south. The length was ninety cubits, which, adding as before the thickness of the walls, gives 100 cubits in length. The whole temple-building was 500 cubits from west to east, and from north to south, 500 cubits.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>12<\/span>. <I><B>The length thereof ninety cubits.<\/B><\/I>] The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was <I>eighty-one<\/I> cubits long; add <I>ten<\/I> cubits for the vestibule, or <I>five<\/I> for the breadth of the separate place, and <I>five<\/I> for its wall; in all, <I>ninety<\/I> cubits. See the plan, LHIL. <span class='bible'>See Clarke on Eze 48:35<\/span>. By the <I>separate place<\/I> I suppose the temple itself is meant.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself. <\/P> <P><B>Before, <\/B>or over against, <\/P> <P><B>the separate place; <\/B>either the temple, with all the appendant treasury chambers; or the oracle, which was in the west end of the temple, and separate from the rest of the temple; or that twenty cubits space which was cut off from the chambers, an&amp; the five cubits space before them by a breast wall, as some think. <\/P> <P><B>At the end<\/B> of either temple, oracle, or foresaid space, <\/P> <P><B>toward the west, was seventy cubits broad:<\/B> as men are not agreed about the fabric, and its dimensions, here intended to be measured, so they are as little agreed how to compute the measures; every one however makes out his account, whether the thing he measures be the right or mistaken. First, suppose the temple and the west part of it from north to south, thus: Twenty cubits the oracle, each side wall six cubits, breadth of chambers on each side four, the thickness of the out-walls of these chambers on both sides five cubits each, a void space of five cubits compassing the whole, and then the low or breast wall that enclosed this space five cubits thick on each side, making up the third ten, produce the seventy cubits. But they that think of a distinct building on the west end of the temple, do also in their method make out the account. <\/P> <P><B>The wall of the building was five cubits thick:<\/B> this seems to countenance their opinion who conceive a distinct building meant. <\/P> <P><B>The length thereof ninety cubits:<\/B> these proportions are easily laid together, which will make up the total, and agree with the temple, thus: Temple and oracle with their walls seventy cubits, porch eleven, and chambers and walls nine cubits. And who will have such a new structure here measured (which is more than was in the first temple fabric) will make all correspond to their hypothesis, and you may more easily object against anothers than demonstrate your own guess. The best is, the error is not great if a man do err here. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>12-15.<\/B> Sum of the measures ofthe temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Now the building that was before the separate place<\/strong>,&#8230;. The &#8220;separate place&#8221; is the holy of holies, which was separated by a vail under the second temple, and by a wall as in this, and the first from the holy place: &#8220;before or over against&#8221; which was a building, as it is rendered, <span class='bible'>Eze 41:15<\/span>, a new building, not before taken notice of: and it was situated<\/p>\n<p><strong>at the end toward the west<\/strong>: or &#8220;sea&#8221; e, the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan. The meaning is, that this building was to the west of the temple, at which end stood the holy of holies, and this near to that: what building is here meant is not easy to say, there being nothing in the first or second temple which answered to it: it seems to be a new building; and what the mystical sense of it is cannot be easily guessed at. Cocceius thinks, that as the holy of holies signifies the heavenly or more perfect state of the church on earth, this, being over against it, or behind it, as in <span class='bible'>Eze 41:15<\/span>, may design heaven itself, the happiness and glory of the saints treasured up and reserved there:<\/p>\n<p><strong>it was seventy cubits broad<\/strong>; Jerom seems to have the same mystical sense in view; since he observes, that after labours and perils, and the floods and shipwrecks of this world for seventy years, we come to enjoy the eternal rest:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about<\/strong>; which may answer to the vast gulf fixed between the godly in heaven, and the wicked in hell; so that there is no going the one to the other,<\/p>\n<p> <span class='bible'>Lu 16:26<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and the length thereof ninety cubits<\/strong>; there are no outgoings to this building, as Hafenrefferus f, a German divine, observes; so that those that are brought into it shall ever remain in it, which is the case of the saints in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>e  &#8220;ad mare, Piscator; obversa mari&#8221;, Cocceius, Starckius. f Apud Starckius in loc.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> The Separate Place, and the External Dimensions of the Temple<\/p>\n<p><span class='bible'>Eze 41:12<\/span>. <em> And the building at the front of the separate place was seventy cubits broad on the side turned toward the west, and the wall of the building five cubits broad round about, and its length ninety cubits. <\/em> <span class='bible'>Eze 41:13<\/span>.<em> And he measured the (temple) house: the length a hundred cubits; and the separate place, and its building, and its walls: the length a hundred cubits. <\/em> <span class='bible'>Eze 41:14<\/span>.<em> And the breadth of the face of the (temple) house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.<\/em> &#8211; The explanation of these verses depends upon the meaning of the word  . According to its derivation from  , to cut, to separate,  means that which is cut off, or separated. Thus   is the land cut off, the desert, which is not connected by roads with the inhabited country. In the passage before us,  signifies a place on the western side of the temple, i.e., behind the temple, which was separated from the sanctuary (Plate I <em> J<\/em>), and on which a building stood, but concerning the purpose of which nothing more definite is stated than we are able to gather, partly from the name and situation of the place in question, and partly from such passages as <span class='bible'>1Ch 26:18<\/span> and <span class='bible'>2Ki 23:11<\/span>, according to which, even in Solomon&#8217;s temple, there was a similar space at the back of the temple house with buildings upon it, which had a separate way out, the gate  , namely, that &ldquo;this space,with its buildings, was to be used for the reception of all refuse, sweepings, all kinds of rubbish, &#8211; in brief, of everything that was separated or rejected when the holy service was performed in the temple, &#8211; and that this was the reason why it received the name of the separate place&rdquo; (Kliefoth). The building upon this space was situated  , in the front of the <em> gizrah <\/em> (that is to say, as one approached it from the temple); and that   , on the side of the way to the sea, i.e., on the western side, sc. of the temple, and had a breadth of seventy cubits (from north to south), with a wall round about, which was five cubits broad (thick), and a length of ninety cubits. As the thickness of the wall is specially mentioned in connection with the breadth, we must add it both to the breadth and to the length of the building as given here; so that, when looked at from the outside, the building was eighty cubits broad and a hundred cubits long. In <em> <span class='bible'>Eze 41:13<\/span><\/em> this length is expressly attributed to the separate place, and (i.e., along with) its building, and the walls thereof. But the length of the temple house has also been previously stated as a hundred cubits. In <span class='bible'>Eze 41:14<\/span> the breadth of both is also stated to have been a hundred cubits &#8211; namely, the breadth of the outer front, or front face of the temple, was a hundred cubits; and the breadth of the separate place  toward the east, i.e., the breadth which it showed to the person measuring on the eastern side, was the same. If, them, the building on the separate place was only eighty cubits broad, according to <span class='bible'>Eze 41:12<\/span>, including the walls, whilst the separate place itself was a hundred cubits broad, there remains a space of twenty cubits in breadth not covered by the building; that is to say, as we need not hesitate to put the building in the centre, open spaces of ten cubits each on the northern and southern sides were left as approaches to the building on both sides (<em> K<\/em>), whereas the entire length of the separate place (from east to west) was covered by the building. &#8211; All these measurements are in perfect harmony. As the inner court formed a square of a hundred cubits in length (<span class='bible'>Eze 40:47<\/span>), the temple house, which joined it on the west, extended with its appurtenances to a similar length; and the separate place behind the temple also covered a space of equal size. These three squares, therefore, had a length from east to west of three hundred cubits. If we add to this the length of the buildings of the east gates of the inner and outer courts, namely fifty cubits for each (<span class='bible'>Eze 40:15<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:21<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:25<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:29<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:33<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:36<\/span>), and the length of the outer court from gate to gate a hundred cubits (<span class='bible'>Eze 40:19<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:23<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 40:27<\/span>), we obtain for the whole of the temple building the length of five hundred cubits. If, again, we add to the breadth of the inner court or temple house, which was one hundred cubits, the breadths of the outer court, with the outer and inner gate-buildings, viz., two hundred cubits on both the north and south sides, we obtain a total breadth of 100 + 200 + 200 = 500 (say five hundred) cubits; so that the whole building covered a space of five hundred cubits square, in harmony with the calculation already made (at <span class='bible'>Eze 40:24-27<\/span>) of the size of the surrounding wall.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"1\" CELLSPACING=\"0\"> <TR> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"LEFT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none\"> <span style='font-size:1.25em;line-height:1em'><I><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">The Vision of the Temple.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in\"> <SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><FONT SIZE=\"1\" STYLE=\"font-size: 8pt\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> 574.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR>  <\/TABLE> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 12 Now the building that <I>was<\/I> before the separate place at the end toward the west <I>was<\/I> seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building <I>was<\/I> five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. &nbsp; 13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; &nbsp; 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. &nbsp; 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which <I>was<\/I> behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; &nbsp; 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows <I>were<\/I> covered; &nbsp; 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. &nbsp; 18 And <I>it was<\/I> made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree <I>was<\/I> between a cherub and a cherub; and <I>every<\/I> cherub had two faces; &nbsp; 19 So that the face of a man <I>was<\/I> toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: <I>it was<\/I> made through all the house round about. &nbsp; 20 From the ground unto above the door <I>were<\/I> cherubims and palm trees made, and <I>on<\/I> the wall of the temple. &nbsp; 21 The posts of the temple <I>were<\/I> squared, <I>and<\/I> the face of the sanctuary; the appearance <I>of the one<\/I> as the appearance <I>of the other.<\/I> &nbsp; 22 The altar of wood <I>was<\/I> three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, <I>were<\/I> of wood: and he said unto me, This <I>is<\/I> the table that <I>is<\/I> before the <B>LORD<\/B>. &nbsp; 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. &nbsp; 24 And the doors had two leaves <I>apiece,<\/I> two turning leaves; two <I>leaves<\/I> for the one door, and two leaves for the other <I>door.<\/I> &nbsp; 25 And <I>there were<\/I> made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as <I>were<\/I> made upon the walls; and <I>there were<\/I> thick planks upon the face of the porch without. &nbsp; 26 And <I>there were<\/I> narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and <I>upon<\/I> the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here is, 1. An account of a building that was <I>before the separate place<\/I> (that is, before the temple), <I>at the end towards the west<\/I> (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 12<\/span>), which is here measured, and compared (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 13<\/span>) with the measure of the house, and appears to be of equal dimensions with it. This stood in a court by itself, which is measured (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 15<\/span>) and its galleries, or chambers belonging to it, its posts and windows, and the ornaments of them, <span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 15-17<\/span>. But what use was to be made of this other building we are not told; perhaps, in this vision, it signified the setting up of a church among the Gentiles not inferior to the Jewish temple, but of quite another nature, and which should soon supersede it. 2. A description of the ornaments of the temple, and the other building. The walls on the inside from top to bottom were adorned with <I>cherubim and palm-trees,<\/I> placed alternately, as in Solomon&#8217;s temple, <span class='bible'>1 Kings vi. 29<\/span>. Each cherub is here said to have two <I>faces,<\/I> the <I>face of a man<\/I> towards the palm tree on one side and the <I>face of a young lion towards the palm-tree<\/I> on the other side, <span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 19<\/span>. These seem to represent the angels, who have more than the wisdom of a man and the courage of a lion; and in both they have an eye to the palms of victory and triumph which are set before them, and which they are sure of in all their conflicts with the powers of darkness. And in the assemblies of the saints angels are in a special manner present, <span class='bible'>1 Cor. xi. 10<\/span>. 3. A description of the posts of the doors both of the temple and of the sanctuary; they were <I>squared<\/I> (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 21<\/span>), not round like pillars; and <I>the appearance of the one was as the appearance of the other.<\/I> In the tabernacle, and in Solomon&#8217;s temple, the door of the sanctuary, or most holy, was narrower than that of the temple, but here it was fully as broad; for in gospel-times <I>the way into the holiest of all is made<\/I> more <I>manifest<\/I> than it was under the Old Testament (<span class='bible'>Heb. ix. 8<\/span>) and therefore the door is wider. These doors are described, <span class='bible'>Eze 41:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 41:24<\/span>. The temple and the sanctuary had each of them its door, and they were <I>two-leaved,<\/I> folding doors. 4. We have here the description of the altar of incense, here said to be an <I>altar of wood,<\/I><span class='_0000ff'><I><U><span class='bible'> v.<\/span><span class='bible'> 22<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. No mention is made of its being <I>over-laid with gold;<\/I> but surely it was intended to be so, else it would not bear the fire with which the incense was to be burned, unless we will suppose that it served only to put the censers upon. Or else it intimates that the incense to be offered in the gospel-temple shall be purely spiritual, and the fire spiritual, which will not consume an altar of wood. Therefore this altar is called a table. <I>This is the table that is before the Lord.<\/I> Here, as before, we find the altar turned into a table; for, the great sacrifice being now offered, that which we have to do is to feast upon the sacrifice at the Lord&#8217;s table. 5. Here is the adorning of the doors and windows with palm-trees, that they might be of a piece with the walls of the house, <span class='bible'>Eze 41:25<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 41:26<\/span>. Thus the living temples are adorned, not with gold, or silver, or costly array, but with <I>the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible.<\/I><\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Matthew Henry&#8217;s Whole Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p style='margin-left:9.175em'><strong>THE SEPARATE PLACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Verses 12-14:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 12 <\/strong>tells of &#8220;the building that was before the separate place,&#8221; behind the temple to the west. This space with its buildings, was to be for the disposition of all refuse, rubbish, trash, that was separate or unused, when the holy service was performed in the temple. This is why it was known as &#8220;the separate place.&#8221; Dimensions of this outer building to the west were: 1) the breadth 70 cubits; 2) the length 90 cubits; and 3) the thickness of the walls around it 5 cubits.<\/p>\n<p>HERE IN THE HARDBOUND COMMENTARY IS A CHART OF THE SEPARATE PLACE <\/p>\n<p><strong>Verses 13, 14 <\/strong>&#8211; Thus the whole breadth of this erection was seventy plus ten, or eight cubits; which, with ten cubits of free space on the north and south sides, make a hundred cubits in all. Its whole length was ninety plus ten, or a hundred cubits. The entire area was thus once more a hundred cubits square. At this point, again, a convenient estimate of the whole dimensions of the temple area may be made.<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:4.05em'><strong>I. The breadth of the area from west to east-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.1em'>1. The separate place (including walls)100 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.1em'>2. The &#8220;house&#8221; (with free space behind)100 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.1em'>3. The inner court100 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.1em'>4. The outer court (the two gates with<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.1em'>space between them200 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:19.005em'>Total 500 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:3.745em'>II. <strong>The length of the area from north to south-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>1. The outer court (the two northern<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>gates with spaces between them200 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>2. The &#8220;house&#8221; (with free spaces on both<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>sides)100 cubits<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>3. The outer court (the two southern gates<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:2.045em'>with distance between them)200<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:18.925em'>Total 500 cubits<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(12) <strong>The separate place.<\/strong>This is the space at the west end of the Temple (20 cubits broad) before coming to another building. Nothing is here said of the purposes of this other building; but it is probably the appointed place (<span class='bible'>Eze. 43:21<\/span>) for the burning of the sin-offering, and also of any remains of other sacrifices which required to be consumed by fire, and of any other refuse from the Temple. Its total width of 80 cubits (70 cubits + 2 walls of 5 cubits each) leaves a passage-way of 10 cubits on each side; while its length (90 cubits + two walls of 5 cubits each100 cubits) Just fills the space from the separate place to the wall of the court. (See plan II., G. [<span class='bible'>Eze. 40:44-49<\/span>]) The sum-total of the exterior measurements is given in <span class='bible'>Eze. 41:13-14<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> THE &ldquo;SEPARATE PLACE&rdquo; DESCRIBED, <span class='bible'>Eze 41:12-15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> 12<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> At the end <\/strong> R.V., &ldquo;at the side.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> &lsquo;And the building that was before the separate place at the side towards the west was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and its length was ninety cubits.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p> To the rear of the sanctuary, instead of chambers there was a large building, separated from the sanctuary by the temple yard. Its perfection is revealed by its size. It is seventy cubits (7&#215;10 &#8211; divine perfection intensified) by ninety cubits (3 squared x 10 &#8211; multiple completeness intensified), fully complete and divinely perfect. This could be for storage, including possibly remains of sacrifices which were for the priests. It was built against the outer wall, with the temple yard (the separate place) which surrounded the sanctuary on three sides (not the entrance side) coming between it and the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong> A Further Description of tile Temple<strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 12. Now, the building that was before the separate place,<\/strong> literally, &#8220;the off-place,&#8221; apparently a building where the refuse and offal of the Temple-worship were deposited, <strong> at the end, toward the west, was seventy cubits broad; and the wall was seventy cubits broad,<\/strong> for at the great festival seasons the amount of waste material was very great; <strong> and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about,<\/strong> or of the same thickness as the wall farther toward the front, <strong> and the length thereof ninety cubits. <\/p>\n<p>v. 13. So He measured the house, an hundred cubits long,<\/strong> that is, the entire Temple edifice, <strong> and the separate place and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long,<\/strong> so that there was a passage of ten cubits each on both the north and the south sides of the Temple-building; <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 14. also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east,<\/strong> another place for refuse, <strong> an hundred cubits. <\/p>\n<p>v. 15. And He measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof,<\/strong> evidently cloistered walks, <strong> on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple and the porches of the court,<\/strong> the pediments projecting into the court; <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 16. the door-posts and the narrow windows and the galleries round about on their three stories,<\/strong> rather, &#8220;round about on all three,&#8221;<strong> over against the door, ceiled with wood round about,<\/strong> literally, &#8220;over against the threshold a boarding of wood round and round,&#8221; <strong> and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered,<\/strong> <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 17. to that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure,<\/strong> all the dimensions were carefully worked out and observed in the building. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 18. And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees,<\/strong> these Serving as ornaments, in the various parts of the structure, <strong> so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub,<\/strong> in artistic alternation; <strong> and every cherub had two faces,<\/strong> <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 19. so that the face of a man,<\/strong> the one face of a cherub, <strong> was toward the palm-tree on the one side and the face of a young lion,<\/strong> the other face of a cherub, <strong> toward the palm-tree on the other side; it was made through all the house round about,<\/strong> from the floor to the roof, wherever the open wall was visible. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 20. From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made and on the wall of the Temple. <\/p>\n<p>v. 21. The posts of the Temple were squared,<\/strong> in agreement with Egyptian architecture, <strong> and the face of the Sanctuary,<\/strong> so that the door-posts with the threshold formed a square; <strong> the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other,<\/strong> in the signature of the coming universality. &#8221; <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 22. The altar of wood,<\/strong> the altar of incense in the Holy Place, <strong> was three cubits high and the length thereof two cubits,<\/strong> the plate of the altar being a square of this dimension; <strong> and the corners thereof,<\/strong> or, &#8220;and it had corners,&#8221; namely, the horns, or projections, which characterized the Jewish altars, <strong> and the length thereof and the walls thereof were of wood. And He said unto me, This is the table that is before the Lord,<\/strong> the altar of the presence of Jehovah, immediately before the Ark of the <em> Cove<\/em> nant which was just beyond the veil. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 23. And the Temple and the sanctuary had two doors. <\/p>\n<p>v. 24. And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves,<\/strong> so that each leaf had two parts which could lie opened and shut, <strong> two leaves for the one door and two leaves for the other door. <\/p>\n<p>v. 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 were thick planks,<\/strong> or &#8220;a wooden pediment,&#8221; upon the face of the porch without. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 26. And there were narrow windows,<\/strong> closed and latticed, <strong> and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side-chambers of the house, and thick planks,<\/strong> heavy projecting portions of wood, probably like the open gables of old houses. Even insignificant details are not omitted in order to make the description of the Temple as complete as possible. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Eze 41:12<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>Now the building <\/em><\/strong><strong>&amp;c.<\/strong> The word  <em>binian, <\/em>translated <em>building, <\/em>signifies a <em>wall <\/em>or <em>inclosure, <\/em>which ran along the outside of the priests&#8217; court, commensurate with the breadth of the western side of the temple, which was seventy cubits from north to south; and extended in length from east to west ninety cubits; ten cubits shorter than the whole area itself, and inclosing a void space of five cubits breadth, which lay between the side chambers and the inclosure; which area and void space may be understood by the <em>separate place <\/em>in this verse, and the <em>place which was left,<\/em> or the intermediate place, <span class='bible'>Eze 41:11<\/span>. Houbigant renders the beginning of the present verse, <em>And the edifice which was in the front of the separate area, to the western side, was, <\/em>&amp;c. See Lowth, and Lamy&#8217;s <em>Apparatus Biblicus.<\/em> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Eze 41:12 Now the building that [was] before the separate place at the end 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.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 12. <strong> The separate place.<\/strong> ] The temple, or at least some part of it.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 41:12<\/p>\n<p> 12 The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 41:12-15<\/p>\n<p>Measurements of the Separate Place (Eze 41:12-15)<\/p>\n<p>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. So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. 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; (Eze 41:12-15).<\/p>\n<p>Measurements of the separate place. Are given in Eze 41:12-15.  The separate place was a large building near the back of the temple that was separated from the main temple.  Measurements of the temple as a whole were 100 cubits by 100 cubits (175 X 175).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>separate: Eze 41:13-15, Eze 42:1, Eze 42:10, Eze 42:13, Rev 21:27, Rev 22:14, Rev 22:15 <\/p>\n<p>the wall: This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 41:12. At one end of the building we have been studying was another that may be regarded as an addition or annex; it was 105 feet wide. Its wall was 8 feet thick and the whole annex was 135 feet long.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 41:12-14. Now the building, &amp;c.  This seems to be another building not before mentioned, but now measured by itself. So he measured the house  The whole temple, oracle, sanctuary, and porch, with the walls, which were in length a hundred cubits from east to west, which may be thus computed:<\/p>\n<p>CUBITS.<\/p>\n<p>The thickness of the wall of the east porch5<\/p>\n<p>The passage through the porch11<\/p>\n<p>The wall between the porch and the temple6<\/p>\n<p>The outward sanctuary40<\/p>\n<p>The partition wall2<\/p>\n<p>The holy of holies20<\/p>\n<p>The thickness of the west wall6<\/p>\n<p>The side-chambers at the west end5<\/p>\n<p>The outer wall of those chambers5<\/p>\n<p>Also the breadth of the face of the house  The front of the temple eastward was a hundred cubits.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 41:12-14. Behind the Temple, at the extreme west of the whole area enclosed by the wall, was a large building, the purpose of which is not givenit may have been used for storage. The Temple building, with the ground immediately surrounding it, was 100 cubits (about 150 feet) square.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Peake&#8217;s Commentary on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">The temple outbuilding 41:12<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another large building stood to the west of the temple proper 20 cubits (33 feet 4 inches) from its west wall. It was 70 cubits (116 feet 8 inches) deep and 90 cubits (150 feet) wide with walls five cubits (8 feet 4 inches) thick. Its function is unknown.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the building that [was] before the separate place at the end 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. 12. 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