51 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then he measured the breadth from the fore front of the lower gate,.... That is, from the front of the inner eastern gate before mentioned, Ezekiel 40:7, called the lower gate, in respect of the gate opposite to it, which led into the inner court, to which there was an ascent of eight steps; and which the Targum calls the middle gate, because it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north,.... Or the north gate of this building: having finished the dimensions of the eastern gate, those of the north gate are taken: he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof; as he had the eastern gate, and which were the same; and so of the south gate, Ezekiel 40:24, which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the little chambers thereof were three on this side, and three on that side,.... As in the eastern gate, and the measures the same, Ezekiel 40:7. Gospel churches in the latter day will be all on the same plan, and modelled according to the same pattern, and be in just the same order, one as another: and the posts thereof, and the arches...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looked towards the east,.... Ezekiel 40:14, signifying that the light of the churches, their privileges, and flourishing condition, will be alike everywhere, as in one part of the world, so in another; see Isaiah 52:8: and they went up unto it by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the gate of the inward court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east,.... Or, "and as to the east" (h); that is, the north gate of the inner court was directly opposite to the north gate of the outward court; just as the eastern gate of the inward court was in a straight line opposite to the eastern gate of the outward...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
After that he brought me toward the south,.... Having taken the dimensions of the east and north gates, the prophet was had on the south side of the building: and behold a gate toward the south; that led to the southern part of this fabric, and to the outward court there, exactly like the other two; there was no difference in them, which raised...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about,.... That is, in the little chambers, though not expressed; and in the porches of them on each side, as you passed from the outer to the inner gate: like those windows; that were in the chambers that were in the east and north gates, Ezekiel 40:7, the length was fifty cubits, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were seven steps to go up to it,.... To the south gate, as there were to the east and north gates, Ezekiel 40:6: and the arches thereof were before them; [See comments on Ezekiel 40:22]: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof; that is, on the posts of this gate were palm trees, two on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south,.... Which answered to the gate of the outward court before mentioned: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits; from the gate of the inward court, to the gate of the outward court southward, were just the same dimensions as in the east and north gates, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate,.... Having done with the outer court, east, north, and south, the prophet is brought into the inner court by the south gate, which was nearest to enter by. No mention is made of a western gate, there was one in Solomon's temple; for there were porters appointed westward by David, and fixed by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures,.... These were at the gate of the inner court; and so they stand in Cocceius's tables; and were of the same measure with the little chambers, posts, and arches, that were at the several outward gates before described; and design the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long,.... That is, high; this was the height of them; these were the frontispiece of the gate to the inner court without, and faced the outward court, as appears by the following verse; these were a kind of portico over the eight steps to this gate after mentioned; they were fourteen yards and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the arches thereof were toward the outward court,.... And so not within the gate of the inward court, but on the outside of it, towards the outward court, at the front of the gate as you went in: and palm trees were upon the posts thereof; of the gate, or of these arches or porticos; signifying that none should enter here but righteous...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east,.... Into that part of it which lay to the east, having gone through that which lay to the south: and he measured the gate according to these measures; that is, the eastern gate of the inner court; for the eastern gate that led to the outward court he measured first, Ezekiel 40:6, and this was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the little chambers thereof,.... These, and what follow in this verse, are exactly the same with those of the south gate of the inner court, Ezekiel 40:29.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the arches thereof were toward the outward court,.... As those of the south gate, Ezekiel 40:31, and the palm trees on the posts, and the steps up to it, the same as there.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 35, 36, 37. And he brought me to the north gate,.... That is, of the inner court, for he had measured before the north gate that led to the outward court, Ezekiel 40:20, and here the little chambers, posts, arches, and steps, in all things agree with those of the other gates: what were observed in it different from the rest, an account is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Ezekiel 40:35].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[See comments on Ezekiel 40:35].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the chambers, and the entries thereof, were by the posts of the gates,.... Of the north gate; the plural for the singular; for not at the other gates, only at the north gate, were the sacrifices slain and washed; as under the law, only on the north side of the altar, Leviticus 1:11, now, by the posts of this gate, or at the entrance of it on...