Ezekiel 41:12

Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The prophet Ezekiel records a visionary tour of a future temple, describing architectural specifications to an exiled community awaiting restoration.

The words — בִּנְיָן (bin.Yan) denotes the physical structure, while גִזְרָה (giz.Rah) refers to the enclosed courtyard area it faces.

The thread — This architectural survey continues in Ezekiel 41:13, which expands the temple's length to one hundred cubits, and Ezekiel 42:1 and Ezekiel 42:10, which detail the northern and southern chambers surrounding the outer court.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition that divine worship requires exact boundaries and measured order, leaving the reader to confront the precision required in approaching God's space.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

Ezekiel 41:13 Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
Ezekiel 42:1 Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
Ezekiel 42:10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
Ezekiel 42:13 Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Revelation 21:27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.