made up will be shown in summary after tha several uetuils have been considered.
charge of the altar, Between the bouse and the inner ends of the
y In iii"! the Leritea m uid to have charse of the bouM.
• Cf. 43i:iir-. V Ezk 40«Mlf
^ Ezk 81*, Jl S>7, Mt !3».
708
TEMPLE
TEMPLE
The porch a (P). — The porch (Fig. 7) was 20 cubits from N. to S. {d c), and 11 cubits, or rather 12,/3 from E. to W. {d f). The platform of the house ■was 6 cubits higher than the ordinary level of tlie inner court : this was reached by 10 steps.7 Close to tlie 'posts' or 'wall fronts' of the ^lorch were two pillars,5 the Boaz and Jachin of 1 K 7-' (J5 J).
The hekal or Holy Place e (H).—1\\e hrkal was 40 cubits long (E. to W.) and 20 broad (N. to S.)— inside measurements. Tlie posts of tlie entrance wall (i A) were 6 cubits thick. The door or entrance way into the h^kal was 10 cubits (A h, i »).
the dihir or Most Holy Place f {D, Fig. 7).— The dcblr was a cube of 20 cubits each way. Its posts (0 p) were 2 cubits in thickness, this bein" the thickness of the wall (n 0) which extended from the N. and S. walls of the house to the door. This wall 7; (ra 0) was 7 cubits wide, leaving 6 cubits for the door. 9
Doors of h^kSl and dl^lr.i — Both Mkal and dfhtr had folding doors of the kind already de- scribed, it It is not said that the cUbtr of Solomon's temple had such doors. The doors of the hikcll were carved with cherubim and palm trees,X as the Mkal walls were./i The porch entrance (a-a : b-b) — we read of no door — was 14 cubits wide.M The door or entrance to the Mkal was 10 cubits wide.i' that of the diUr being 6.{ The entrances were therefore in the proportion 7:5:3 (14 : 10 : 6). It is singular, though probably only a coincidence, that the wall projections ( = ' sidepieces ') 0 had exactly opposite ratios, viz. Z(za) : 5 (fh) : 7 (n 0).
The side chambcrs.ir — On every side of the house except the east, Ezekiel's temple, like Solomon's, had side chambers. The MT ^ves the number of them as 3.3, and Sraend displays mucli in- genuity in justifying the text, which in this con- nexion is by universal confession very corrupt. In fa. our of there being 30 are the LXX, Josephus.p Bottcher, Cornill, and most recent authorities, as also is the fact that there were 30 cells along the outer wall, not to add the greater .symmetry of the round number. In Kings the number is not given. The chambers, arranged as in Solo- mon's temple in 3 storeys, were on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd storeys respectively, 4, 5, and 6 cubits broad : in the first temple the figures were 5, 6, and 7. The 2nd and 3rd storeys rested upon rebatements, on which see p. 699''. Concerning the rebates in the temple wall, the ladders by which the upper storeys were reached, and the uses of the chambers, see above, p. 699''.
Ezekiel's temple had doors [E E'), one N., one S., by which admission to tlie chambers could be ob- tained. There was but one for the first temple, and it was situated at the south t (see Fig. 2, E). There was probably a ladder at each entrance : Ezekiel's temple would thus have two ladders (SS'), Solomon's temple one (Fig. 2, S).
The inunnnh,T or ' what was left ' (EV). — On the outside of the chambers N. and S. there was an empty margin of 5 cubits (M). It was out of this munndh that entrance was had to the chambers through the two doors {E E'j.
S T)ius the LXX ; and the other measurement* require 1& See Summary at p. 708i>. ■y E;:k 41t>. i iV. See Boai.
I 411f-. ? 413f-.
II 413. LXX correctly nkr iiraiutlmt nv Su^fdmntt reading ninn^i Instead of 31311 (' and the width '),
«'4l3. ' 1 41»».
» Above, p. 7001>, Fig. 4. X 41» 4117«..
ft Tboueh the Hebrew does not ^ve the width, It Is supplied by the liXX of 41^8. Adding to this 14 cubits the two project- ing walls (d 6, 6 0) we get 6 (= 2 x 3) -H4 = 20, the width ot the porch (N. to 6.), which is a confirmation of the LXX
> 41>. { 413. , «i«.
t41»-ii. f Ant. \m. \\l t.
( 1 K «». I nj:: Ezk 41«- ".
The gizrah,a or ' separate place ' (EV). —On e\ ery side except the E. there was a space of 20 cubits, called the gizrah (Fig. 5, beef). This court ran round the whole bouse buildings, including the munndh, on N. and S. ; or it went round the raised platform on which these stood. Reckoning to- gether gizrah, munnah, chambers, and house, there was a breadth (N. to S. ) of 100 cubits, which makes it highly probable that the gizrah formed /)ar< of the upper platform, instead of merely enclosing it. The text;3 is silent as to any use to whicli the gizrah was put. Perliaps, like our cloisters, it was for the priests to exercise themselves in, and take fresh air when unable to get farther afield.