11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
11 Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.
11 He measured the outside entrance to the gate complex: fifteen feet wide and nineteen and a half feet deep.
11 He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
11 The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 feet wide at the opening and 22 feet wide in the gateway passage.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 40:11
Chapter Contents
The Vision of the Temple.
Here is a vision, beginning at ch. 40, and continued to the end of the book, ch. 48, which is justly looked upon to be one of the most difficult portions in all the book of God. When we despair to be satisfied as to any difficulty we meet with, let us bless God that our salvation does not depend upon it, but that things necessary are plain enough; and let us wait till God shall reveal even this unto us. This chapter describes two outward courts of the temple. Whether the personage here mentioned was the Son of God, or a created angel, is not clear. But Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice, to whom we must look with faith in all approaches to God; and he is Salvation in the midst of the earth, Psalm 74:12, to be looked unto from all quarters.