The Pulpit Commentary — Ezekiel — Volume 2 — Section 334

house (Ewald, Currey) or between them and notes a space behind the temple on the 11n outside wall (Kliefoth, Hengstenberg, west, which was marked off from the rest Keil)-we.s five cubits broad. Thus the of the ground on which the temple with its whole breadth of the temple court can be courts and chambers stood, and devoted obte.ined. moat likely to Iese sacred pnrposes. Be- I. The breadth or the court- hind Solomon's temple lay a similar space (2 Kings xxiii. 11; 1 Chron. nvi. 18), with I. Breadth of the house ... 20 cnbits buildings upon it and a separate way out; 2. Breadth of wall, 6 x 2 cubits 12 ,. = and as the name gizrah appears to convey 8. Breadth of chambers, 4: x 2 ., 8 ,,= the notion of something that required to be 4. Bre&dthofchamberwall,5x2,, 10 ,, = kept apart and removed from the sacred 5. Breadth of corridor, 5 x 2 ., = 10 ,, precincts, Iha opinion of Kliefoth is pro- 6. Breadth offree space, 20 x 2,, = 40 ,, bably corrrect that "this apace with its buildings was to be used for the reception Total 100 ,, of all refuse, sweepings, all kinds of rub- II. The length of the court- bish-in brief, of everything that was I. The length of the honse 60 cubits separated or rejected when the holy service 2. The temple wall we.a performed in the temple, and that this 6 " was the reason why it received the name of 3. The chambers .. . 4 ,, 4. The che.mber wall .. . 5 • the separate place.'" The dimensions of 5. The corridor ... ... . .. this building were (1) the breadth, seventy 5 20 ",. cubits; (2) the length, ninety cubits ; (3) 6. The space towards the west the thickness of the wall, five cubits round Total ... 100 ,. about . Vere. 13, 14:.-Thus the whole breadth of The "house" we.a thus one hundred cubits this erection was eevllnty plus ten, or eighty square. The porch of the: house we.a cubits; which, with ten oubits of free space reckoned es belonging to the inner court on the north and south sides, make B hun- (eh. .xl. 48). dred cubits in all. Its whole length we.s TBE SEPARATE PLAOB. ninety plus ten, or a hundred cubits. The entire area was thus once more a hundred cubits square. At this point, again, a con- venient estimate of the whole dimensions of the temple area may be made. I. The breadth of the area from west to east- I. The eepe.ro.te place (inolud- ing walls)... ... ... 100 cubita 2. The" house" (with free space I behind) . . . 100 3, The inner court .. . . . . 100 ., 4. The outer court (the two gates with spBce between them) 200 " Total 500 II. The length of the area from north to eouth- 1. The outer court (the two northern gates with epaoes between then.) .. . . . . 200 oubiti'< 2. The''houee" (with freespo.ce o, the glzrah, or separate place, 90 X 70 cuhlts1 on both sides) ... ... 100 ,, a, wall of glzrab, fi cubits thick ; s, rree space, S. The outer court (the two 10 cubits broad; r, r, temple place, 20 cubl&II southern gates with di.s- broad. tance between them) 200 Vere. 12-14.-The separate plaCll, Total 500 Ver. 12.-The building that was before the separate place. The word n;,1~;:,, Vere. 15-26.-The projecting portion, of occurring only in this chapter, and trans- the temple building. lated "eepo.rate plo.ce," is derived from a Ver. 15.-With this verse begins a sum• root signifying to " out off.," and here de- mary of me1111urements of which some hem,  THE BOOK OF TRE PROPHET EZEKIEL. [err. xtt, 1-26.