Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.
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Cherubim and palm trees were made from the ground to above the door. The wall of the temple was like this.
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From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.
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From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made; and so on the wall of the temple.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 41:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 41:18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees. A palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 41:20 From the ground unto above the door…
Eze 41:20 From the ground unto above the door [were] cherubims and palm trees made, and [on] the wall of the temple.
Ver. 20. And on the wall of the temple.] Yet this is no warrant for the use of pictures in our churches, whether for worship, as Papists, or for ornaments only, as Lutherans. At a consultation held not many years since at Hamburg by Lutheran ministers, concerning the cause and cure of Germany’s calamities, they concluded it was because their images were not adorned enough, which, therefore, they would procure done. {a} A sad business!
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{a} Mr Burroughs on Hos., vol. i. p. 465.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The door: some think it is the great east…
The door: some think it is the great east gate; I think rather here, is an enallage, or change of number, door for doors, and that every porch was so beautified: see Eze 40:16,22,26,34. These beautiful sculptures were round about the walls of the temple, and oracle too, though not expressed here.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain From the ground unto above the door,.... From the…
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 Dan 12:4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 20. From the ground unto above the door]…
Verse 20. From the ground unto above the door] The temple was thirty cubits high, 1Kg 6:2, the gate was fourteen cubits, Eze 40:48. The palm trees and the cherubim were the same height as the gate or door. The windows were above the door.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20, 21. Read, “And as for the wall of…
20, 21. Read, “And as for the wall of the temple, the doorposts were squared; and in front of the sanctuary was the appearance as the appearance of an altar of wood, three cubits high,” etc. (Compare Exo_30:1, and 1Ki_7:48.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. The prophet is to be conceived as standing…
20. The prophet is to be conceived as standing in the holy place, and when he speaks of the “door” he evidently refers to the end walls and not to the side walls. It remains obscure whether it be the “door” of the holiest or that of the holy place to which he refers.
and on the wall … temple] The word “temple” is marked as suspicious by dots over it, and is omitted in some MSS. and in the ancient versions. The clause is to be connected with Eze_41:21.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (20) Unto above the door.—The height of the door…
(20) Unto above the door.—The height of the door is nowhere mentioned, and therefore there is nothing to determine how high up the carving was carried; but as it is said that it was also “upon the wall of the Temple,” we may assume that the whole interior wall was ceiled with carved wood as in Solomon’s Temple.
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