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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 41:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Eze 41:12 |
Strong Concordance |
Now the building [01146] that was before [06440] the separate place [01508] at the end [06285] toward [01870] the west [03220] was seventy [07657] cubits [0520] broad [07341]; and the wall [07023] of the building [01146] was five [02568] cubits [0520] thick [07341] round about [05439], and the length [0753] thereof ninety [08673] cubits [0520]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Sum of the measures of the temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The separate place - 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 Eze 43:21). 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. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The Separate Place, and the External Dimensions of the Temple
Eze 41:12. 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. Eze 41:13. 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. Eze 41:14. And the breadth of the face of the (temple) house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. - The explanation of these verses depends upon the meaning of the word גּזרה. According to its derivation from גּזר, to cut, to separate, גּזרה means that which is cut off, or separated. Thus ארץ גּזרה is the land cut off, the desert, which is not connected by roads with the inhabited country. In the passage before us, גּזרה signifies a place on the western side of the temple, i.e., behind the temple, which was separated from the sanctuary (Plate I J), 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 Ch1 26:18 and Kg2 23:11, according to which, even in Solomon'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 שׁלּכת, namely, that "this space,with its buildings, was to be used for the reception of all refuse, sweepings, all kinds of rubbish, - in brief, of everything that was separated or rejected when the holy service was performed in the temple, - and that this was the reason why it received the name of the separate place" (Kliefoth). The building upon this space was situated אל־פּני־הגּזרה, in the front of the gizrah (that is to say, as one approached it from the temple); and that פּאת דּרך־היּם, 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 Eze 41:13 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 Eze 41:14 the breadth of both is also stated to have been a hundred cubits - namely, the breadth of the outer front, or front face of the temple, was a hundred cubits; and the breadth of the separate place לקּדים 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 Eze 41:12, 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 (K), whereas the entire length of the separate place (from east to west) was covered by the building. - All these measurements are in perfect harmony. As the inner court formed a square of a hundred cubits in length (Eze 40:47), 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 (Eze 40:15, Eze 40:21, Eze 40:25, Eze 40:29, Eze 40:33, Eze 40:36), and the length of the outer court from gate to gate a hundred cubits (Eze 40:19, Eze 40:23, Eze 40:27), 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 Eze 40:24-27) of the size of the surrounding wall. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The building - This is a new building not yet mentioned, but now measured by itself. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The length thereof ninety cubits - The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was eighty-one cubits long; add ten cubits for the vestibule, or five for the breadth of the separate place, and five for its wall; in all, ninety cubits. See the plan, LHIL. By the separate place I suppose the temple itself is meant. |
21 Thou shalt take [03947] the bullock [06499] also of the sin offering [02403], and he shall burn [08313] it in the appointed place [04662] of the house [01004], without [02351] the sanctuary [04720].
24 After that he brought [03212] me toward [01870] the south [01864], and behold a gate [08179] toward [01870] the south [01864]: and he measured [04058] the posts [0352] thereof and the arches [0361] thereof according to these measures [04060].
25 And there were windows [02474] in it and in the arches [0361] thereof round about [05439], like those windows [02474]: the length [0753] was fifty [02572] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520].
26 And there were seven [07651] steps [04609] to go up [05930] to it, and the arches [0361] thereof were before [06440] them: and it had palm trees [08561], one [0259] on this side, and another [0259] on that side, upon the posts [0352] thereof.
27 And there was a gate [08179] in the inner [06442] court [02691] toward [01870] the south [01864]: and he measured [04058] from gate [08179] to gate [08179] toward [01870] the south [01864] an hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
27 And there was a gate [08179] in the inner [06442] court [02691] toward [01870] the south [01864]: and he measured [04058] from gate [08179] to gate [08179] toward [01870] the south [01864] an hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
23 And the gate [08179] of the inner [06442] court [02691] was over against the gate [08179] toward the north [06828], and toward the east [06921]; and he measured [04058] from gate [08179] to gate [08179] an hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
19 Then he measured [04058] the breadth [07341] from the forefront [06440] of the lower [08481] gate [08179] unto the forefront [06440] of the inner [06442] court [02691] without [02351], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] eastward [06921] and northward [06828].
36 The little chambers [08372] thereof, the posts [0352] thereof, and the arches [0361] thereof, and the windows [02474] to it round about [05439]: the length [0753] was fifty [02572] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520].
33 And the little chambers [08372] thereof, and the posts [0352] thereof, and the arches [0361] thereof, were according to these measures [04060]: and there were windows [02474] therein and in the arches [0361] thereof round about [05439]: it was fifty [02572] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] broad [07341].
29 And the little chambers [08372] thereof, and the posts [0352] thereof, and the arches [0361] thereof, according to these measures [04060]: and there were windows [02474] in it and in the arches [0361] thereof round about [05439]: it was fifty [02572] cubits [0520] long [0753], and five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520] broad [07341].
25 And there were windows [02474] in it and in the arches [0361] thereof round about [05439], like those windows [02474]: the length [0753] was fifty [02572] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520].
21 And the little chambers [08372] thereof were three [07969] on this side and three [07969] on that side; and the posts [0352] thereof and the arches [0361] thereof were after the measure [04060] of the first [07223] gate [08179]: the length [0753] thereof was fifty [02572] cubits [0520], and the breadth [07341] five [02568] and twenty [06242] cubits [0520].
15 And from the face [06440] of the gate [08179] of the entrance [02978] unto the face [06440] of the porch [0197] of the inner [06442] gate [08179] were fifty [02572] cubits [0520].
47 So he measured [04058] the court [02691], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] long [0753], and an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] broad [07341], foursquare [07251]; and the altar [04196] that was before [06440] the house [01004].
12 Now the building [01146] that was before [06440] the separate place [01508] at the end [06285] toward [01870] the west [03220] was seventy [07657] cubits [0520] broad [07341]; and the wall [07023] of the building [01146] was five [02568] cubits [0520] thick [07341] round about [05439], and the length [0753] thereof ninety [08673] cubits [0520].
14 Also the breadth [07341] of the face [06440] of the house [01004], and of the separate place [01508] toward the east [06921], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
13 So he measured [04058] the house [01004], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] long [0753]; and the separate place [01508], and the building [01140], with the walls [07023] thereof, an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] long [0753];
11 And he took away [07673] the horses [05483] that the kings [04428] of Judah [03063] had given [05414] to the sun [08121], at the entering in [0935] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], by the chamber [03957] of Nathanmelech [05419] the chamberlain [05631], which was in the suburbs [06503], and burned [08313] the chariots [04818] of the sun [08121] with fire [0784].
18 At Parbar [06503] westward [04628], four [0702] at the causeway [04546], and two [08147] at Parbar [06503].
14 Also the breadth [07341] of the face [06440] of the house [01004], and of the separate place [01508] toward the east [06921], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
13 So he measured [04058] the house [01004], an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] long [0753]; and the separate place [01508], and the building [01140], with the walls [07023] thereof, an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] long [0753];
12 Now the building [01146] that was before [06440] the separate place [01508] at the end [06285] toward [01870] the west [03220] was seventy [07657] cubits [0520] broad [07341]; and the wall [07023] of the building [01146] was five [02568] cubits [0520] thick [07341] round about [05439], and the length [0753] thereof ninety [08673] cubits [0520].