Ezekiel 41

The Most Holy Place Ezekiel 41:3–4

³Verse 3. Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven cubits. ⁴Verse 4. He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”

Side Rooms and Structure Ezekiel 41:5–7

⁵Verse 5. Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. ⁶Verse 6. The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of the house. ⁷Verse 7. The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.

Raised Base and Room Dimensions Ezekiel 41:8–10

⁸Verse 8. I saw also that the house had a raised base all around. The foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits. ⁹Verse 9. The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house. ¹⁰Verse 10. Between the rooms was a width of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

Additional Measurements and Widths Ezekiel 41:11–15

¹¹Verse 11. The doors of the side rooms were toward an open area that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. The width of the open area was five cubits all around. ¹²Verse 12. The building that was before the separate place 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 ninety cubits. ¹³Verse 13. So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; ¹⁴Verse 14. also the width of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

¹⁵Verse 15. He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court

Temple Ornamentation Ezekiel 41:16–20

¹⁶Verse 16. the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), ¹⁷Verse 17. to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure. ¹⁸Verse 18. It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces; ¹⁹Verse 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. It was made like this through all the house all around.

²⁰Verse 20. Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.

Doors and Final Details Ezekiel 41:21–26

²¹Verse 21. As for the temple, the door posts were squared. As for the face of the sanctuary, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple. ²²Verse 22. The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.” ²³Verse 23. The temple and the sanctuary had two doors. ²⁴Verse 24. The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other. ²⁵Verse 25. There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

²⁶Verse 26. There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the house and the thresholds were arranged.