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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side,.... The cherubim in this verse are the same with the living creatures this prophet saw by the river Chebar, and which he knew to be the cherubim, Ezekiel 10:20 and the same with John's four beasts or living creatures in Revelation 4:7 and he being the last that wrote concerning...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
From the ground unto above the door,.... From the floor of the holy of holies to above the door of it to the east, where was the entrance into it; or from thence to the cieling, as the Septuagint version: "were cherubim and palm trees made"; either in rows one above another, quite up to the place mentioned; or they were made so large, that each...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The posts of the temple were squared,.... Or, were "foursquare" (n); the two posts on each side the door, the lintel and the threshold, made a square; the posts themselves were not round, as pillars, but flat and square; and the upper part was not arched, as in some buildings, but square. Jarchi says he had heard that the posts of Solomon's temple...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits,.... This was the altar of incense, and was typical of Christ in his intercession and mediation. It was made of "wood"; that in the tabernacle of Moses was of shittim wood, a kind of cedar; and that in Solomon's temple was of cedar, Exodus 30:1 and may signify the human...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. Or the house of propitiatory, as the Targum; that is, the most holy place; not two doors apiece, but each had one door, which made two; the door of the temple was ten cubits broad, and the door of the most holy place six cubits, Ezekiel 41:2 showing the door is wider, and more enter into the outward...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves,.... Each of these doors had two leaves, which met in a middle post, and might be opened either singly or together, as occasion required; [See comments on Ezekiel 40:48]: two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door; two for the door of the temple, and two for the door of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,.... Both of the holy, and the most holy place: cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; the doors of both places had the same decorations as the walls of each; [See comments on Ezekiel 41:18]; [See comments on Ezekiel 41:19]; [See comments on Ezekiel 41:20]; and so it was in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were narrow windows,.... See Ezekiel 41:16: and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; upon the posts that were on each side the porch, north and south; Ezekiel 40:16: and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks; that is, there were palm trees upon the side chambers, which were in...