Ezekiel 41:12-15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

Sum of the measures of the temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it

Verse 15. The galleries - terrace buildings. On the west or back of the temple there was a separate place occupied by buildings of the same external dimensions as the temple - i:e., one hundred cubits square in the entire compass (Fairbairn).

Ezekiel 41:12-15

12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleriesb thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;