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Ezekiel 41
The measuring continues inside the temple of Ezekiel's vision: the nave, the most holy place twenty cubits square, the side chambers in three storeys, and walls carved with cherubim and palm trees.
Summary written for the Labs; read the chapter itself for the full text.
See it in the Labs
- Temples Side by SideEzekiel's visionary temple · Temples Side by SideOpen
- Temples Side by SideStacked on one spot · Temples Side by SideOpen
- Solomon's TempleThe side chambers · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleThe windows · Solomon's TempleOpen
- Solomon's TempleCedar lining and carvings · Solomon's TempleOpen
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How sure can we be?
- Textually stated
Holy place and most holy place: 60 × 20 cubits. The holy place 40 by 20 and the most holy place 20 by 20, as in Solomon's house.
- Textually stated
The house: 100 × 50 cubits. 100 cubits long with its walls and side chambers; the front 100 wide with the separate place. Heights are not given.
- Speculative
The walls are drawn 6 cubits thick.
Kings and Chronicles give inside measurements only. Six cubits is the wall of Ezekiel's visionary temple (Ezekiel 41:5), borrowed here as a working figure.
- Speculative
The number of rooms and their doors are drawn as a guess (about 30 to a storey).
Kings gives no count. Ezekiel's visionary temple has thirty side rooms on each of three storeys (Ezekiel 41:6), used here as a pattern.
- Artistic
The layout of the carvings (alternating cherubim and palms in bands, with rows of gourds and flowers) is artistic.
The text lists the motifs but not their arrangement. Ezekiel's temple alternates cherub and palm (Ezekiel 41:18), which the lab follows.