The binyanyor ' building' (EV). — On the W. side of the house and adjoining the gizrah there was a rectan^lar structure called, apparently, techni- cally binyCin (Fig. 5, B), the inside measurements of which were 70 cubits from E. to W. and 90 from N. to S. Its encompassing wall was 5 cubit.s in thickness. Its W. limit reached to the western wall and joined it, as may be seen from the dimen- sions below : —
I/ength ot binyan (E. to W.) .... 70 cubits. 2wallsof do. (E. and W.)2x6 . . . 10 „ Oizrah 20 „
Total . . . 100 cubits. We know that the western side of the house waa 100 cubits from the outer wall, so that there could be no space between the latter and the binyan.
TheniusS contends strongly that there was such an inter- vening space, and that behind the binyan there were gates throu^'h which wood and animals to be sacrificed were brought into the temple area, and through which refuse of every kind was carried away, lilief. and Keil hold that the binyan was made for the purpose of receiving the offal of the sacrifices and the sweepings of the gates. Curry 1 says the carcase of the sin-offering was burnt at this building.^
It is veiy probable that by the binyan we are to understand the same as the D*ii"!grr,( of 2 K 23U (places in which horses and chariots were kept) and the l^ng of 1 Cb 2619 (a part of the temple west of the house, of wliicli the priests had charge).
In Ezk 4115* we read of the binyan and its 'galleries ' : for the last word we should certainly read, with Com. and others, 'walls.' 5 This is confirmed by calculation. Adding 90 cubits, the N. to S. dimension, to the "widths of the two enclosing walls (5-1-5 = 10), we get 100 cubits. Besides, in no other place do we read of there being galleries in the binyan.
General measurements of the house. — The house and its belongings formed a square of 100 cubil.-< a side,4 as shown below —
From E. to W. m have these details (see Fig. 7)—
ab Porch wall, Ezk 40*8 6 cubit*.
(V Porch, 40*9 12 „
/k Wall of hfkal. 411 6 „
fcn Length of hfkdl, 41« 40 „
nr Wall of dMr, 41» 2 „
r» Lenirth of dibir, 41* 20 „
Walla ot house (W.), 41» . . . . 6 „
1, 2, eto., Side chambers, 415 , , . , 4 „
Wall of side chambers, 419 , . . 6 ,,
Total
. 100 cubits.
This calculation proves that the munndh (JO did not extend to
the W. side. Theee are ths dime ntiont from N.toS.—
Breadth of house, Eek 41> . . . .20 cubita.
Side walls, 41°, 6-1-6 ... . 12 »
Sidechambers, 414, 4-1-4 . . . . g „
Walls of side chambers, 41», 6+6 . . . 10 „
Jfunmii, E. and W., 41", 6-f6 . . . 10 „ Gitrah, E. and W., 411°, 20-t-20 . . 40 „
Total
. 100 cubit*
• ,T)I1, from 11} Elk 411*" 421- !»• ". /9 Ezk 41". y i;)5, lit ' building,' from .1J5 ' to build.'
) See Da* vorex. Jems, vnd detsen Tempel, Taf. iii. fig. & 1 Speaker » Comm. i Ezk 43^1.
•1 AV 'suburbs,' BV 'precincts.' Both inj and IjiJ an derived by Oesen. (Thet.) from Pere. farwar, a summer-house, open on all sides to admit air. He considers the ' parbar ' of 1 Ch 26"* to have been an open porch atljoining the temple. In Rabbinical Hebrew (Mishna, etc) parbar means temple court, and also suburbs of a city. See, further, art. PaRBia. e niTp for D'P'BK. « 41i»^».
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Decoration of the inside of the house. — Tlio walls a of hfkfil, dlbir, and porch were wainscotted, as were also the closed windows.(3 The wall decora- tion was arranged in compartments or liekls,7 in each of which a clicrub and palm tree were en- graved, the cherub havinj; faces of man and lion, one face looking upon the other.S On the side walls of the porch, palra trees alone were carved.
Wiudmna. — Little is said about the windows of Ezekiel's temple. Those of the gateway,^ the porch.f and the house i; are characterized as 'closed,' 9 i.e. 'latticed.' In 1 K 6^ the windows of Solomon's temple are further characterized as 'beamed.' This second feature is probably under- stood of Ezekiel's temple too. See more fully above (p. 700*) on windows of Solomon's temple.
Priests' cells in the Inner Court. i — N. and S. of thegizrdh there were 4 rows of cells in which the priests ate the holj' food and deposited their garments, two rows being on the N. and two on the S. First there was one abutting upon the gizrah and lying along its whole length of 100 cubits. Then came a parade or walk 10 cubits broad of the same length. Next to this, parallel to the gizrah and the first row of cells, was a half row, starting at the west, the remaining space
Contents of the house — In the hSkill of Ezekiel's temple there was nothing except the cedar wood altar,o which was 2 cuhits in both length and breadth (3 and 3 culiits high. It had raised comers,7 wrongly called horns S by the LXX, and is described as a 'table (set) before Jehovah.' t The altar of bumt-ofl'ering is also called the table of Jehovah. f It cannot be the altar of incen.se that is meant, for we find no such table mentioned earlier than P. No doubt we are to understand the altar-shaped table of shewbread (Fig. 7, T), as in Solomon's temple, this table occupying the same