Ezekiel 40:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. ”

• Ezekiel 40:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The east gate-building. See Plan III. Ezekiel 40:6 Stairs - Seven in number Ezekiel 40:22 . Each threshold of the gate (was) one reed broad (or 9 ft.). The measurements are being taken fro...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  He is first struck by a thick wall encircling the Temple. Steps led up to the eastern gateway which pierced the wall, and on each side of which were three guard-rooms.

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  posts: or projections, coigns or small turrets. inward . toward. [the house].

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. The porch of the gate - See account of the gates in the plan.

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. The posts - projecting column-faced fronts of the sides of the d...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Temple Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N. side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure,...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ezekiel 40:6-16 contain a description of the eastern gate, or rather, gate-building of the Temple, by which one entered from the precincts into the outer court. The other gates were like it, but th...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE IMPORT OF THE VISION WE have now reached the last and in every way the most important section of the book of Ezekiel. The nine concluding Chapter s record what was evidently the crowning exper...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This final section must be studied in relation to all that has immediately preceded it, wherein the spiritual restoration and cleansing of the people had been foretold. The picture of the restored or...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The Reader will form a better calculation of the extent of this wonderful city, by considering what its dimensions were. A cubit for the sanctuary measurement, was one foot and nine inches; and if th...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits ,.... This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman z; since there were five cubits between every...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate [was] inward. Ver. 9. And the porch of the gate was inward. ] Or, This was the po...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits , &c. This was a portico beyond the little chambers which looked into the first court. It was eight cubits wide, and the two side-posts were...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Vision of the Temple. B. C. 574.       5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house r...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This, say some, was another porch of another gate, distinct from that Ezekiel 40:6 . But others, more likely, refer this measuring to the same gate, but where, as before the breadth, now the lengt...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Temple ( Ezekiel 40:1 to Ezekiel 48:35 ). The book of Ezekiel began with a vision of the glory of God and the coming of the heavenly chariot throne of God in order to speak directly to H...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE IDEAL TEMPLE OF THE FUTURE (Chap. 40) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 40:1 . “In the five and twentieth year.” The fiftieth year from the 18th of Josiah, the year of his memorable passover ( 2 Kin...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 40:1 . In the five and twentieth year of our captivity. When the pious jews were dispirited, the Lord revived them with the hopes of a better temple than that which Solomon had built. This...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The magnificent temple-vision, as it is usually styled, a description of which forms the closing section of this book (Ezekiel 40-48.), was the last extended" word" communicated to th...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Vision of the Temple-Building. The remaining Chapter s of Ezekiel's prophecy give an ideal picture of the spiritual temple of the Lord, of His Church of the New Testament, of his glorious king...

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 45:19

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• Ezekiel 40:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The porch — Probably another porch, or another gate distinct from that, Ezekiel 40:6 . The posts — These were half columns, that from the floor to the height of the wall jetted out, as if one half...

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