Ezekiel 41:18

One was a face of a human, and one was the face of a lion. Those figures were carved on the walls all around the inside of the temple.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

In Context

17All the walls inside the temple were decorated with carvings of winged creatures and palm trees: Between each figure of a winged creature was a carving of a palm tree. Each winged creature had two faces:

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:35The doors were also decorated with wood carvings of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers, and they were also covered evenly with very thin sheets of gold.

1 Kings 7:36The braces and the panels on the sides of the carts were also decorated with figures of winged creatures, lions, and palm trees, whenever there was space for them, and there were bronze wreaths all around them.

2 Chronicles 3:7They covered the ceiling beams, the door frames, the walls and the doors of the temple with very thin sheets of gold. They also carved statues of winged creatures on the walls.

Ezekiel 10:14Each of the winged creatures had four faces. One face was like the face of a bull, one face was like the face of a human, one face was like the face of a lion, and one face was like the face of an eagle.

Ezekiel 40:16There were small windows in the outside walls of all the alcoves, and also in the inner dividing walls between the alcoves. There were also small windows in the entry room. The dividing walls were decorated with carvings of palm trees.

Ezekiel 41:20They covered all the walls, from the floor to the top of the walls.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 41:13-26

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. 15 And he measured… Read the whole commentary →

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