Ezekiel 41:18-20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

And it was made with cherubims and with palm-trees On the inside of the house the walls were adorned with carved work of cherubim and palm-trees, as Solomon's temple was, 1 Kings 6:29. The cherubs and palm-trees were placed alternately; and according to the different ways of counting them, you might reckon a palm-tree placed between two cherubs, or a cherubim placed between two palm-trees. So the face of a man was toward a palm-tree, &c. The cherubim had four faces, or appearances, but only two of these appeared plainly in this carved work; the two other faces, namely, that of an ox and an eagle, being supposed to be hid in the plain or surface of the wall. From the ground unto above the door Up to the windows, as it is expressed Ezekiel 41:16, or up to the ceiling, as the LXX. explain it.

Ezekiel 41:18-20

18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.