Guiding Questions: Ezekiel 41

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Do the furnishings and measurements of the Temple, as set forth in Ezekiel 40 and this chapter, conform with the description in the Book of Exodus or are there variations — and, if variations, why?
  2. Does the description conform with that which appears in portraying the “Temple of Solomon”?
  3. Certain construction details are set forth (as, for example, in Ezekiel 41:6); would this document the prophet’s clear intent to be as specific and definitive in his description as he possibly could be?
  4. What might the “inner chamber” (Ezekiel 41:15) be describing?
  5. Has the term “cherubim” (Ezekiel 41:18) been encountered before?
  6. What images of an artistic nature are described in Ezekiel 41:19?
  7. The altar is described (Ezekiel 41:22); of what is it constructed?
  8. Would the windows as described (particularly in Ezekiel 41:26, for example) indicate a specific kind of architecture still followed in parts of Israel?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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