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English Standard Version

Ezekiel 41:5

Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cherub;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Four;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10½ feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was 7 feet.
Hebrew Names Version
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
King James Version
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
New American Standard Bible
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
New Century Version
Then the man measured the wall of the Temple, which was ten and one-half feet thick. There were side rooms seven feet wide all around the Temple.
Amplified Bible
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits [thick, to accommodate side chambers]; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the temple on every side.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After, he measured the wall of the house, sixe cubites, and the breadth of euery chamber foure cubites rounde about the house, on euery side.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he measured the wall of the house of Yahweh, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around about the house on every side.
Berean Standard Bible
Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
Contemporary English Version
The man measured the wall of the temple, and it was ten feet thick. Storage rooms seven feet wide were built against the outside of the wall.
Complete Jewish Bible
[On his way out,] he measured the thickness of the wall of the house at ten-and-a-half feet [at ground level], and the width of all the side-rooms surrounding the house, seven feet [at ground level].
Darby Translation
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the side-chambers, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the man measured the wall of the Temple. It was 6 cubits thick. There were side rooms all around the Temple. They were 4 cubits wide.
George Lamsa Translation
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Good News Translation
The man measured the thickness of the inner wall of the Temple building, and it was 10 feet. Against this wall, all around the Temple, was a series of small rooms 7 feet wide.
Lexham English Bible
And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits, and the width of the side room as four cubits all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall.
Literal Translation
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the width of each side room was four cubits all around the house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He measured also the wall of the house, which was sixe cubites. The chambres yt stode rounde aboute ye house, were euery one foure cubites wyde,
American Standard Version
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Bible in Basic English
Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
King James Version (1611)
After he measured the wall of the house sixe cubites, and the bredth of euerie side-chamber foure cubites round about the house on euery side.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He measured also the wall of the house sixe cubites, and the breadth of a chamber foure cubites round about the house on euery side.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.
English Revised Version
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
World English Bible
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to me, This is the hooli thing of hooli thingis. And he mat the wal of the hous of sixe cubitis, and the breede of the side of foure cubitis, on ech side bi cumpas of the hous.
Update Bible Version
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the width of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
Webster's Bible Translation
Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of [every] side-chamber, four cubits, round the house on every side.
New English Translation
Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.
New King James Version
Next, he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits. The width of each side chamber all around the temple was four cubits on every side.
New Living Translation
Then he measured the wall of the Temple, and it was 10 1⁄2 feet thick. There was a row of rooms along the outside wall; each room was 7 feet wide.
New Life Bible
Then he showed me that the wall of the Lord's house was six cubits in width. And the side rooms all around the house on every side were four cubits wide.
New Revised Standard
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said he unto me This! is the holy of holies. Then measured he the wall of the house six cubits, - and the breadth of the side-chamber, four cubits round about on every side of the house round about.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he measured the wall of the house six cubits: and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side.
Revised Standard Version
Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick; and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, round about the temple.
Young's Literal Translation
And he measureth the wall of the house six cubits, and the breadth of the side-chamber four cubits, all round the house round about.
THE MESSAGE
He measured the wall of the Temple. It was ten and a half feet thick. The side rooms around the Temple were seven feet wide. There were three floors of these side rooms, thirty rooms on each of the three floors. There were supporting beams around the Temple wall to hold up the side rooms, but they were freestanding, not attached to the wall itself. The side rooms around the Temple became wider from first floor to second floor to third floor. A staircase went from the bottom floor, through the middle, and then to the top floor.

Contextual Overview

1 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs. 2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. 4 And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." 5 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. 6 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 7 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. 8 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits. 9 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the 10 other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

side chamber: Ezekiel 41:6, Ezekiel 41:7, Ezekiel 42:3-14, 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:6

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Ezekiel 41:9 - was five

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 32:14
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After he measured the wall of the house six cubits,.... Or a reed, three yards and a half thick: this was the wall of the holy of holies, or which divided that from the holy place, and was not in the second temple; or rather the wall of the temple, the whole house or building, both of the holy place, and of the most holy, which were contiguous: such a strong wall is the Lord to his church, and especially will be in the latter day, when salvation will be for walls and bulwarks against all enemies, and to preserve from all hurt and danger, Isaiah 26:1, the New Jerusalem also will have a wall great and high, and made of a precious stone, Revelation 21:12:

and the breadth of every side chamber four cubits round about the house on every side; or, "of every rib" y; as ribs are to the body, so were these side chambers or buildings to the fabric, as Ben Melech observes, who interprets them of beams: adjoining to the above wall were chambers all around the holy place and the most holy on each side, north and south; for there could be none on the east, that being the entrance into the holy, and so into the most holy place; and the floor of these chambers were four cubits, or two yards and a foot broad; that is, those of the lower storey: these were for the priests, where they lodged, and laid up and ate their most holy things, and put their garments in which they ministered; see Ezekiel 42:13, and design, as the chambers everywhere do, particular congregated churches; where such as are made priests to God by Christ have a place, and communion with God in holy things; and appear in the righteousness of Christ, and in the beauties of holiness.

y הצלע "costae", Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wall of the house - This was the outer wall of the temple itself. Its thickness of six cubits corresponds with the colossal proportions of the architecture of the east.

Every side chamber - the side-chambers (D). These were a marked feature in Solomon’s Temple, and were probably used as storehouses for the furniture and property of the temple. The arrangement of these side-chambers differed in some respects from that of Solomon’s Temple, the object of Ezekiel’s vision being throughout to bring all things to a more exact proportion.


 
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