Hesekiel 41:12

Elberfelder Bibel

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Das Gebäude aber, welches auf der westlichen Seite am abgegrenzten Hofe liegt, war siebzig Ellen breit; die Mauer des Gebäudes war ringsum fünf Ellen dick; seine Länge aber betrug neunzig Ellen.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und das Gebäude am Hofraum gegen Abend war siebzig Ellen weit und die Mauer des Gebäudes war fünf Ellen breit allenthalben umher, und es war neunzig Ellen lang.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

separate: Ezekiel 41:13-15, Ezekiel 42:1, Ezekiel 42:10, Ezekiel 42:13, Revelation 21:27, Revelation 22:14, Revelation 22:15

the wall: This appears to have been a building erected at the west end of the temple.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the building that was before the separate place,.... The "separate place" is the holy of holies, which was separated by a vail under the second temple, and by a wall as in this, and the first from the holy place: "before or over against" which was a building, as it is rendered, Ezekiel 41:15, a new building, not before taken notice of: and it was situated

at the end toward the west: or "sea" e, the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan. The meaning is, that this building was to the west of the temple, at which end stood the holy of holies, and this near to that: what building is here meant is not easy to say, there being nothing in the first or second temple which answered to it: it seems to be a new building; and what the mystical sense of it is cannot be easily guessed at. Cocceius thinks, that as the holy of holies signifies the heavenly or more perfect state of the church on earth, this, being over against it, or behind it, as in Ezekiel 41:15, may design heaven itself, the happiness and glory of the saints treasured up and reserved there:

it was seventy cubits broad; Jerom seems to have the same mystical sense in view; since he observes, that after labours and perils, and the floods and shipwrecks of this world for seventy years, we come to enjoy the eternal rest:

and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about; which may answer to the vast gulf fixed between the godly in heaven, and the wicked in hell; so that there is no going the one to the other,

Luke 16:26:

and the length thereof ninety cubits; there are no outgoings to this building, as Hafenrefferus f, a German divine, observes; so that those that are brought into it shall ever remain in it, which is the case of the saints in heaven.

e הים "ad mare, Piscator; obversa mari", Cocceius, Starckius. f Apud Starckius in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The separate place - See F, Plan II. The word occurs only in this chapter. The name, which seems one of discredit, has led to the conjecture that the purpose of this place and its building was to receive the offal of the sacrifices and sweepings of the courts, to be carried thence by a postern gate (compare Ezekiel 43:21). The building itself was, we are told, seventy cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick (eighty cubits in all), leaving ten cubits on each side to make up the 100 cubits from north to south. The length was ninety cubits, which, adding as before the thickness of the walls, gives 100 cubits in length. The whole temple-building was 500 cubits from west to east, and from north to south, 500 cubits.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 41:12. The length thereof ninety cubits. — The temple, with the buildings which surrounded it, was eighty-one cubits long; add ten cubits for the vestibule, or five for the breadth of the separate place, and five for its wall; in all, ninety cubits. See the plan, LHIL. Ezekiel 48:35. By the separate place I suppose the temple itself is meant.