Ezekiel 41:16
14 The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
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,
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.
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,
18 were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
- WEB
- the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
- ASV
- the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
- DARBY
- The thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about the three of them (opposite the thresholds it was wainscoted with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered),
- BLB
- their doorposts, and the beveled windows, and the galleries all around for the three of them, opposite the threshold, [were] paneled with wood round about, [from] the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered,
- ÅB
- Dørtresklene og vinduene med fast gitter og svalgangene rundt omkring i deres tredobbelte stokkverk - ovenfor dørtreskelen var det et panel av tre rundt omkring, og jorden nådde opp til vinduene, og vinduene var dekket -
- OTB
- Dørtersklene, smale vinduer, og gallerier rundt de tre av dem var panelt med tre fra bakken til vinduene, som var dekket.
- B1930
- Dørtresklene og vinduene med fast gitter og svalgangene rundt omkring i deres tredobbelte stokkverk - ovenfor dørtreskelen var det et panel av tre rundt omkring, og jorden nådde op til vinduene, og vinduene var dekket -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 6:4
He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
Read in context1 Kings 6:15
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
Read in contextEzekiel 40:25
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Read in contextEzekiel 40:16
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
Read in contextIsaiah 6:4
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
Read in contextEzekiel 41:25–26
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.
Read in contextHaggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
Read in contextEzekiel 42:3
Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
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