Friday, January 22, 2010

Ezekiel 41

1-26 Continuation of Temple Description

1-4 Next the man measures the pilasters, entrance, nave, and the inner room (the most holy place). A pilaster is “a rectangular column with a capital and base, projecting only slightly from a wall as an ornamental motif.”

5-11 Next, the wall, with a measurement and description of the side chambers (three stories, 30 in each story), chamber supports, passageway, stairways, raised platform, foundations, outer wall and doors from the chambers into the temple.

12-15 Then he measures the building facing the temple yard on the west, the temple, the temple yard, and the building facing the yard at the west.

16-20 Description of the nave, inner room and outer vestibule – paneled with windows, with a pattern of cherubim and palm trees on the walls.

21-26 Next he describes the doorposts of the nave, an altar in front of the holy place, the double doors of the nave and holy place, the carving of cherubims and palm trees on the doors, a canopy of wood, and recessed windows and palm trees on the side walls of the vestibule.

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