23And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. …
And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)Here is, 1. An account of a building that was before the separate place (that is, before the temple), at the end towards the west (Ezek. 41:12), which is here measured, and compared (Ezek. 41:13) with the measure of the house, and appears to be of equal dimensions with it. This stood in a court by itself, which is measured (Ezek. 41:15) and its galleries, or chambers belonging to it, its posts and…
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