14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway-sixty cubits.
14 He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.
14 He measured the inside walls of the gate complex: ninety feet to the porch leading into the courtyard.
14 He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.
14 He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105Â feet.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 40:14
Chapter Contents
The Vision of the Temple.
Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear. But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in the midst of the earth, Psalm 74:12, to be looked unto from all quarters.