Ezekiel 40:14

14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits.^[a] The measurement was up to the portico^[b] facing the courtyard.^[c]

Ezekiel 40:14 in Other Translations

14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

14 He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.

14 He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.

14 He measured the inside walls of the gate complex: ninety feet to the porch leading into the courtyard.

14 He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court [reached] unto the posts, round about the gate.

14 He also measured the entrance hall. It was 35 feet wide. In front of the entrance hall to the gateway was a courtyard on all sides.

14 Next, he measured the pilasters-105 feet. The gate extended around to the pilaster of the court.

14 He measured along the front of the side walls that were all around the inside of the gateway. The total was 105 feet. That didn't include the porch that faced the courtyard.

Ezekiel 40:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:14

He made also posts of threescore cubits
Jerom thinks, that between the outward wall which surrounded this building, and the building itself, these posts or pillars were placed for ornament, which took up the space of sixty cubits; but rather these design the posts or columns of the gate, which supported the arch over it, on which were rooms or stories, and these were sixty cubits high; for of their height is this measure to be understood. So the Targum,

``and he made posts, sixty cubits was their height;''

in the Targum, in the Polyglot Bible by Montanus, it is,

``and he made sixty posts, their height a cubit:''

and to this agree Jarchi and Kimchi; these were thirty five yards high, the height of the temple ordered to be built by Cyrus, ( Ezra 6:3 ) . The man that measured is said to "make" these posts, he being the builder as well as the measurer of this edifice; and might be said to make these as, by measuring, he pointed out the size and proportion of them: these posts may design the true members of Gospel churches, such who are pillars in the house of God; of which see more on ( Ezekiel 40:16 ) , compare the phrase of "making" these posts or pillars with ( Revelation 3:12 ) : even unto the post of the court round about the gate;
that is, there was the same measure to every post or pillar in every court, at every gate round about; at the southern and northern gates, as at this eastern one; they were all exactly of the same measure as the posts in this; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it.

Ezekiel 40:14 In-Context

12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square.

13 Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from one parapet opening to the opposite one.

14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits. The measurement was up to the portico facing the courtyard.

15 The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.

16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 27:9

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 105 feet or about 32 meters
• [b]. Septuagint; Hebrew "projecting wall"
• [c]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.