The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
Parallel Translations
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The doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves: two for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
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And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
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And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 41:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 6:34 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
- Ezekiel 40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 41:24 And the doors had two leaves [apiece],…
Eze 41:24 And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves; two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other [door].
Ver. 24. Two leaves.] There are variety of ordinances.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Made; carved.
Made; carved.
On them; the doors of both temple and oracle.
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The temple; including the holy of holies also.
Cherubims: see Eze 41:18.
Thick planks; I suppose these were boards of more than ordinary thickness, which were fastened to the great beams, whose ends came out beyond the wall of the porch, and probably were laid so as to make a part of an arch over the entrance into the gate, as we see over some houses, and as sometimes under the balconies; and here also in these thicker planks, it is like, were some ornaments,
Upon or above the front
of the porch.
Without; on the court-side of the porch, that part that looked outward.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And there were made on them, on the doors…
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,.... Both of the holy, and the most holy place:
cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; the doors of both places had the same decorations as the walls of each; See Gill on Eze 41:18; See Gill on Eze 41:19; See Gill on Eze 41:20; and so it was in Solomon's temple, Kg1 6:32, a cherub and a palm tree on each leaf, or on each folding of a leaf, according as it would admit of:
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and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without; on the outward front of the porch were some thick wainscot boards, which projected as a cover to the entrance into it; or, as it may be rendered, also on
the thick piece of wood in the front of the porch without (r); which, as Starckius thinks, was a large wooden bar, which shut and held in the folding leaves of the door; and on this, or these thick planks, were cherubim and palm trees.
(r) "etiam denso ligno in fronte vestibuli extrinsecus", Junius & Tremellius; "et trabs lignea ante vestibulum erat foris", Starckius.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Other. It was not perhaps necessary to open the…
Other. It was not perhaps necessary to open the large door.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. And the doors] i.e. the leaves of the…
24. And the doors] i.e. the leaves of the door had again two leaves, so that the doors as a whole of the holy place and holiest were each composed of four small leaves, like a screen.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Two turning leaves.—The doors both of the Holy…
(24) Two turning leaves.—The doors both of the Holy Place and of the Holy of Holies are more fully described in 1Ki_6:31-35. It is to be understood that each of them was made in two parts, and each part again in two leaves folding back, so that there were in all four leaves in each door.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.