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Ezekiel 41:15
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,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The vision continues with a measuring figure guiding Ezekiel through the temple complex after establishing the courtyard's width. The narrative moment shifts from the outer boundaries to the precise dimensions of the rear building facing the inner court.
The words — The text highlights וּ/מָדַ֣ד (u./ma.Dad), meaning "and he measured," alongside אֹֽרֶךְ־ ('o.rekh-), meaning "the length of." These terms anchor the architectural survey of the structure and its galleries.
The thread — The measuring motif and temple architecture reappear in Ezekiel 42:1 and Ezekiel 42:3 as the guide continues the survey northward. The structural language echoes the architectural imagery of Song of Solomon 1:17.
Why it lands — The text records exact measurements of sacred space before any symbolic interpretation is applied. It requires the reader to recognize the deliberate, ordered construction of the temple before examining its theological implications.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 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.
- 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.
- Song of Solomon 1:17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- Song of Solomon 7:5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 41:17 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,
- Ezekiel 42:5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.
- Ezekiel 42:15 Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around:
- Zechariah 3:7 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.