Ezekiel 41

The Inner Temple

1 Then he a brought me into the 1 sanctuary 2 and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side - the width of the tabernacle. 2 The width of the entryway was ten cubits, and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side; and he measured its length, forty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits. 3 Also he went inside and measured the doorposts, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits high; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 b He measured the length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the sanctuary; and he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place."

5 Next, he measured the wall of the 3 temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side. 6 c The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on 4 ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but d not fastened to the wall of the temple. 7 As one went up from story to story, the side chambers e became wider all around, because their supporting ledges in the wall of the temple ascended like steps; therefore the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the middle one. 8 I also saw an elevation all around the temple; it was the foundation of the side chambers, f a full rod, that is, six cubits high. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits, and so also the remaining terrace by the place of the side chambers of the 5 temple. 10 And between it and the wall chambers was a width of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 11 The doors of the side chambers opened on the terrace, one door toward the north and another toward the south; and the width of the terrace was five cubits all around.

12 The building that faced the separating courtyard at its western end was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the temple, one g hundred cubits long; and the separating courtyard with the building and its walls was one hundred cubits long; 14 also the width of the eastern face of the temple, including the separating courtyard, was one hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the building behind it, facing the separating courtyard, with its h galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner 6 temple and the porches of the court, 16 their doorposts and i the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with j wood from the ground to the windows - the windows were covered - 17 from the space above the door, even to the inner 7 room, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure. 18 And it was made k with cherubim and l palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces, 19 m so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side; thus it was made throughout the temple all around. 20 From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved.

21 The n doorposts of the temple were square, as was the front of the sanctuary; their appearance was similar. 22 o The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its sides were of wood; and he said to me, "This is p the table that is q before the LORD." 23 r The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 The doors had two s panels apiece, two folding panels: two panels for one door and two panels for the other door. 25 Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the temple just as they were carved on the walls. A wooden canopy was on the front of the vestibule outside. 26 There were t beveled window frames and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the vestibule - also on the side chambers of the temple and on the canopies.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 40:2
    In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city.
    Ezekiel 40:3
    He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
    Ezekiel 40:17
    Then he brought me into the outer court; and there were chambers and a pavement made all around the court; thirty chambers faced the pavement.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:20
    The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.
    2 Chronicles 3:8
    And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:5 - 10
    Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:6
    The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple.
    1 Kings 6:10
    And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:8
    The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 40:5
    Now there was a wall all around the outside of the temple. In the man's hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; and the height, one rod.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 40:47
    And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare. The altar was in front of the temple.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 42:3
    Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the pavement of the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
    Ezekiel 42:5
    Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building.
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:4
    And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.
    Ezekiel 40:16
    There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.
    Ezekiel 40:25
    There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
  10. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:15
    And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.
  11. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:29
    Then he carved all the walls of the temple all around, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
    2 Chronicles 3:7
    He also overlaid the house - the beams and doorposts, its walls and doors - with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 3:5
    The larger room he paneled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it.
    Ezekiel 40:16
    There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.
  13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 1:10
    As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle.
    Ezekiel 10:14
    Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
  14. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:33
    So for the door of the sanctuary he also made doorposts of olive wood, one-fourth of the wall.
    Ezekiel 40:9
    Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the gate was on the inside.
    Ezekiel 40:14
    He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.
    Ezekiel 40:16
    There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.
    Ezekiel 41:1
    Then he brought me into the sanctuary and measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side - the width of the tabernacle.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 30:1 - 3
    You shall make an altar to burn incense on; you shall make it of acacia wood.
    1 Kings 6:20
    The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.
    Revelation 8:3
    Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 25:23
    You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two...
    Exodus 25:30
    And you shall set the showbread on the table be...
    Leviticus 24:6
    You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, o...
    Ezekiel 23:41
    You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepar...
    Ezekiel 44:16
    They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall c...
    Malachi 1:7
    "You offer defiled food on My altar, But say, '...
    Malachi 1:12
    "But you profane it, In that you say, 'The tabl...
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 30:8
    And when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:31 - 35
    For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood; the lintel and doorposts were one-fifth of the wall.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:34
    And the two doors were of cypress wood; two panels comprised one folding door, and two panels comprised the other folding door.
  20. Cross References
    Ezekiel 40:16
    There were beveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were palm trees.
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