Ezekiel - 41:20



20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 41:20.

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From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
From the ground even to the upper parts of the gate, were cherubims and palm trees wrought in the wall of the temple.
From the ground unto above the entry were the cherubim and the palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
from the earth unto above the opening are the cherubs and the palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall.
From the floor, even to the upper parts of the gate, there were cherubim and palm trees engraved in the wall of the temple.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

From the ground unto above the door - The temple was thirty cubits high, 1-Kings 6:2, the gate was fourteen cubits, chap. Ezekiel 40:48. The palm trees and the cherubim were the same height as the gate or door. The windows were above the door.

From the ground unto above the door,.... From the floor of the holy of holies to above the door of it to the east, where was the entrance into it; or from thence to the cieling, as the Septuagint version: "were cherubim and palm trees made"; either in rows one above another, quite up to the place mentioned; or they were made so large, that each cherub and palm tree reached from the ground to above the door, or to the cieling:
and on the wall of the temple: that is, they were not only thus placed in the holiest of all; but in the temple, or holy place on the wall of it all around; and shows, that in the state of the church in the latter day, which this part of the building represents more especially, will be great numbers of Gospel ministers, who will faithfully and uprightly preach it to men; see Daniel 12:4.

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