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Ezekiel 41:16
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The vision details the temple's construction to Ezekiel during his measurement tour of the restored sanctuary.
The words — The Hebrew סִפִּים (si.Pim) denotes thresholds, while אַתִּיקִים (a.ti.Kim) refers to the galleries or upper chambers.
The thread — Parallel architectural details appear in 1 Kings 6:4 regarding narrow windows, 1 Kings 6:15 on cedar paneling from floor to ceiling, and Ezekiel 40:16 on beveled windows in gate chambers.
Why it lands — The text states that the sanctuary walls were fully paneled with wood from the ground to the windows and that the windows were covered, establishing a physical boundary that separates the holy structure from the outside.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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;
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 6:4 He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
- 1 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.
- Ezekiel 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.
- Ezekiel 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.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
- Isaiah 6:4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
- Ezekiel 41:25 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.
- 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.
- Haggai 1:4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.