(25) Thick planks.--After stating that the doors just described were ornamented like the walls, the prophet speaks of something that was on the outer front of the porch. What this was, is extremely doubtful, as the word is elsewhere used only in 1 Kings 7:6, of something in front of Solomon's cloisters or "porch of pillars." Perhaps the best suggestion is that it may have been a moulding of wood. The word in the original is in the singular.
41:1-26 After the prophet had observed the courts, he was brought to the temple. If we attend to instructions in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
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 Ezekiel 41:18; See Gill on Ezekiel 41:19; See Gill on Ezekiel 41:20; and so it was in Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:32, a cherub and a palm tree on each leaf, or on each folding of a leaf, according as it would admit of:
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.
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 Ezekiel 41:18; See Gill on Ezekiel 41:19; See Gill on Ezekiel 41:20; and so it was in Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:32, a cherub and a palm tree on each leaf, or on each folding of a leaf, according as it would admit of:
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.