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The Interior Structures
Ezekiel 41:15–26 describes measured parts of the temple interior and its fittings. The passage pays close attention to size, woodwork, doors, windows and carved patterns, helping readers notice the ordered design of the house and what stood before Yahweh.
Understanding the passage
The setting of this message
In this part of Ezekiel, the speaker continues measuring the temple area and describing what is seen there. These verses focus on interior structures, including galleries, walls, decoration, doors and a wooden altar or table. The passage presents these details carefully and repeatedly by measure and arrangement.
Ezekiel 41:15–26Main takeaway
This passage teaches that the temple interior was arranged with measured order, repeated decoration and a wooden table before Yahweh.
Explore the message
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01Measured structure and covered windowsThe description begins with the building’s measured length, its galleries and the porches of the court.
Explanation
The description begins with the building’s measured length, its galleries and the porches of the court. It then lists thresholds, closed windows and galleries on three stories, with wood ceilings all around. The text also notes that the walls were measured inside and outside, showing careful order in the whole structure.
02Cherubim and palm trees throughoutThe walls were decorated with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree stood between each cherub, and each cherub had two faces: a man’s face toward a palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward a palm tree on the other.
Explanation
The walls were decorated with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree stood between each cherub, and each cherub had two faces: a man’s face toward a palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward a palm tree on the other. This pattern appeared through all the house around.
03The nave and the wooden tableThe squared door posts of the nave are mentioned next, and the nave’s appearance is linked with the temple’s appearance.
Explanation
The squared door posts of the nave are mentioned next, and the nave’s appearance is linked with the temple’s appearance. Then a wooden altar is described with its height, length, corners, base and walls. It is identified with these words: “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”
04Doors, porch and side arrangementsThe temple and the sanctuary each had two doors, and each door had two turning leaves. The same cherubim and palm tree designs seen on the walls were also made on the doors of the nave.
Explanation
The temple and the sanctuary each had two doors, and each door had two turning leaves. The same cherubim and palm tree designs seen on the walls were also made on the doors of the nave. The passage ends by noting wooden thresholding, closed windows, palm trees and the arrangement of side rooms and thresholds.
Questions to explore
Pause, look back at the verses and talk together.
01What repeated features show that this temple interior was carefully arranged rather than described casually?
Look for repeated references to measuring, counted parts, and arranged features such as galleries, doors, windows and thresholds.
02How are the cherubim described, and what stands between them?
Read the decoration details closely and note both the two faces of each cherub and the palm tree placement.
03What does the passage say stood before Yahweh, and what was it made from?
Find the object whose size and material are given and notice the exact name spoken over it.
Read the Bible passage
World English Bible ClassicScripture quotation · Public domain
Ezekiel 41:15–26
15He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits from the inner temple, and the porches of the court,
16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
17to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.
18It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,
19so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. It was made like this through all the house all around.
20Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.
21The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.
22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”
23The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
24The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
25There were made on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees, like those made on the walls. There was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
26There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch. This is how the side rooms of the temple and the thresholds were arranged.