New English Translation
Ezekiel 41:18
18It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:
Ezekiel 41:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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;
- New International Version (NIV)were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces:
- English Standard Version (ESV)It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:
- New King James Version (NKJV)And it was made with cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Each cherub had two faces,
Context of Ezekiel 41:18
16as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 17to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement. It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces: 19a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around; 20from the ground to the area above the entrance, cherubim and decorative palm trees were carved on the wall of the outer sanctuary.
Read all of Ezekiel 41Ezekiel 41:18 word by word
וְעָשׂ֥וּי כְּרוּבִ֖ים וְתִֽמֹרִ֑ים וְתִֽמֹרָה֙ בֵּין־כְּר֣וּב לִכְר֔וּב וּשְׁנַ֥יִם פָּנִ֖ים לַכְּרֽוּב׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ezekiel 41:18
- 1 Kings 6:29On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
- 1 Kings 7:36He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.
- Ezekiel 40:16There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.
- Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.
- Ezekiel 1:10Their faces had this appearance: Each of the four had the face of a man, with the face of a lion on the right, the face of an ox on the left and also the face of an eagle.
- Ezekiel 10:14Each of the cherubim had four faces: The first was the face of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
- Revelation 4:7The first living creature was like a lion, the second creature like an ox, the third creature had a face like a man’s, and the fourth creature looked like an eagle flying.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 41:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18A palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub - That is, the palm trees and the cherubs were alternated; and each cherub had two faces, one of a lion and the other of a man; one of which was turned to the palm tree on the right, the other to the palm tree on the left.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18On the symbolism of the “cherubim” see Ezekiel 1:1 note Every cherub had two faces - Not as in Exodus 26:1; Exodus 36:8 were no doubt like the cherubim over the ark, of which we have no reason to suppose that each had “two faces.” The symbolic character here admitted of the deviation.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-20The temple building was covered with wooden panels. The walls were decorated with carvings of palm trees and cherubim. The cherubim were like those Ezekiel saw in his earlier visions of judgment (see Ezekiel 1:5–12; 10:2–14). In those visions, the cherubim had four faces. However, the carved images in the temple had only two faces. One face was a lion, the greatest of the wild animals. The other was a human, the highest part of God’s created order…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-261. tabernacle--As in the measurement of the outer porch he had pointed to Solomon's temple, so here in the edifice itself, he points to the old tabernacle, which being eight boards in breadth (each one and a half cubits broad) would make in all twelve cubits, as here. On the interior it was only ten cubits.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 41
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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