Ezekiel 41:15-17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And he measured the length, &c. Noldius translates this sentence more clearly thus: And he measured the length of the building which was before the separate place, [and] that which was behind it, or opposite to it; by which he understands the north and south porch, the east and west sides having been measured before, Ezekiel 41:12; Ezekiel 41:14. And the galleries thereof on one side, &c., a hundred cubits, with [or and] the inner temple, and the porches thereof As the temple, and the area wherein it stood, made a square of a hundred cubits; so the courts and buildings thereto belonging were of the same dimensions. By the galleries are meant the side-chambers, described Ezekiel 41:6-7. Within the inner temple Called the inner house, Ezekiel 41:17; Ezekiel 42:15, to distinguish it from the courts and buildings which were about it. The door- posts and the narrow windows, &c. He measured also the thickness of the walls on each side of the porch, and the thickness of the door-cases at the entrance into the temple; as also the narrow windows belonging to the three stories of chambers, which were placed on the outside of the temple. From the ground up to the windows He measured from the ground up to the windows which were placed above the side-chambers. And the windows were covered With lattices or curtains, or both. To that above the door It seems this verse is connected with the preceding, and signifies that the windows were made in exact proportion, both over the porch, and through every part of the temple and the buildings adjoining to it.