Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 41:16

"the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered)," — Ezekiel 41:16 (ASV)

The door posts. This is the same word as in Ezekiel 40:6–7 and following, and means thresholds. The various specifics mentioned—the thresholds, the windows, and the galleries—are all to be taken in connection with the phrase he measured from Ezekiel 41:15. These are details of the three buildings spoken of there, yet they did not all necessarily belong to each building.

Narrow windows. Rather, closed windows (See Note on Ezekiel 40:16).

On their three stories. The word “Stories” is not in the original and introduces a wrong idea. He measured the three buildings (Ezekiel 41:15), and various details about their three (constructions) (Ezekiel 41:16).

Over against the door, cieled with wood round about. This is really a parenthesis, although scarcely intelligible as it stands. Translate: Opposite the thresholds (was) a ceiling of wood around. The part strictly opposite the threshold was the lintel, but the expression here is broad enough to include the sides of the doorway as well. The doorways in the various buildings were all ceiled with wood, and it is afterwards said that this was carved.

And from the ground. After the parenthesis, the construction dependent upon he measured is resumed. As everything else was measured, so also was the space between the ground and the windows. Then, again, it is mentioned parenthetically that the windows were covered, namely, as in Ezekiel 40:16, by lattices fastened so as not to be opened.