Ezekiel 41

Inside the Temple

1 Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide ¹on each side. ² ‡ Ezk 40:17Ezk 40:2-3Ezk 41:231Ki 6:21Pe 2:5Eph 2:20-22Ezk 40:9Ezk 41:21 +62 The width of the entrance was ten cubits, ³ and the sides of the entrance were five cubits ⁴on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits. ⁵ ‡ 1Ki 6:171Ki 6:22Ch 3:31Ki 6:31-352Ch 29:72Ch 3:7Exo 26:36Exo 36:37 +2

3 And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. ⁶ The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide. ⁷ ‡ Ezk 40:16 4 Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary ⁸to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. ⁹ And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place. ¹⁰” ‡ 1Ki 6:20Heb 9:3-82Ch 3:8Exo 26:33-341Ki 6:161Ki 6:5Rev 21:16

Outside the Temple

5 Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits. ¹¹ ‡ 1Ki 6:5-6Ezk 41:6-9Ezk 42:3-14 6 The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself. ‡ 1Ki 6:101Ki 6:5-61Pe 1:5Ezk 40:17 7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one. ‡ 1Ki 6:8Heb 6:1Mat 13:32

8 I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits. ‡ Ezk 40:5Rev 21:16 9 The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple ‡ Ezk 41:11Ezk 42:1Ezk 42:4 10 and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple. ‡ Ezk 40:17 11 The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around. ‡ Ezk 41:9Ezk 42:4

12 Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, ¹² and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits. ¹³ ‡ Ezk 41:13-15Ezk 42:1Ezk 42:10Ezk 42:13Rev 21:27Rev 22:14-15

13 Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, ¹⁴ and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long. ‡ Ezk 40:47 14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.

The Interior Structures

15 Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court, ‡ Ezk 42:3Ezk 42:1Ezk 41:12Ezk 41:17Ezk 42:15Ezk 42:5Sng 1:17Sng 7:5 +116 as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered. ‡ 1Ki 6:41Ki 6:15Ezk 40:16Ezk 40:251Co 13:122Ch 3:5Ezk 41:25-26Ezk 42:3 +2

17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary, ‡ Ezk 42:15 18 were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces: ‡ 1Ki 7:36Ezk 40:162Ch 3:7Ezk 10:21Ezk 40:221Ki 6:29-321Ki 6:352Ch 3:5 +619 the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved all the way around the temple. ‡ Ezk 10:14Ezk 1:10 20 Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary from the floor to the space above the entrance. ‡ Ezk 41:18

21 The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar. ‡ Ezk 41:11Ki 6:33Ezk 40:14

22 There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. ¹⁵ Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.” ‡ Ezk 23:41Ezk 44:16Mal 1:12Mal 1:71Ki 6:20Exo 30:1-3Lev 24:6Rev 8:3 +10

23 Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors, ‡ 1Ki 6:31-352Ch 4:22Ezk 41:1 24 and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other. ‡ 1Ki 6:34Ezk 40:48 25 Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico. ‡ Ezk 41:18 26 There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies. ‡ Ezk 41:16Ezk 40:16Ezk 41:5