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Transportation of the Ark of the Covenant Containing the Tablets of the Law (1816)
Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849)
Neoclassical Style
Room of the Ark, Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Ezekiel 42 the LORD brings Ezekiel to the outer court. The chambers are described in the first part of the chapter (42:1-12); and their use is described in the latter part of the chapter (42:13-20). The chambers or stations were for the use of the priests as they did their duties in the Temple and were for sacred meals for them and their families. It is just such chambers that Jesus had in mind when he said "In my Father's house are many mansions" (John 14:2); (see Leviticus 6:16, Leviticus 6:26, Leviticus 24:9, and Leviticus 3:2 with 1 Kings 6:5; Ezra 8:29; and Jeremiah 35:2). Jesus called these chambers "mansions" (KJV), literally "dwelling places" or "stations" ('monai' in the Greek), by which he conveyed the idea that these chambers were places to stay or remain, with the implication that we would be always close to God. The painting above depicts the High Priests and the Levites bringing the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple, which was an occasional duty if the ark had been removed for some reason; however, no such removal or return is mentioned in Ezekiel in the visionary temple. The ark in not represented as being part of the Temple. This implies that the ark does not have a place in this Temple; and what Ezekiel implies, Jeremiah confirms explicitly: "And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more." (Jeremiah 3:16).
Today's painting shows the joy when the Ark of the Covenant came into Solomon's Temple. By contrast, however, the Ark will not be in the new Temple (i.e., the new order of things), as mentioned in the discussion above.
[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Ezekiel 33. Ezekiel 34. Ezekiel 35. Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 37. Ezekiel 38. Ezekiel 39. Ezekiel 40. Ezekiel 41. Ezekiel 42. Ezekiel 43. Ezekiel 44. Ezekiel 45. Ezekiel 46. Ezekiel 47. Ezekiel 48. ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
1. Before the Siege of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 1:1 - Ezekiel 23:49) - 593 - 586 B.C. Babylon
2. During the Siege of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 24:1 - Ezekiel 32:32) - 587-586 B.C. Babylon
3. After the Siege of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 33:1 - Ezekiel 48:35) - 586-570 B.C. Babylon
A. The Messenger and Siege Motif (24:1-27)
B. The Exile Motif (33:23 - 35:15)
C. The Mountain Motif: Populated, Not Invaded (36:1-38)
D. The Return Motif (37:1 - 48:35)
1). Dry Bones: National Restoration (37:1-28)
2). Destruction of Gog: Invasion Fails (38:1 - 39:29)
3). Renewal: The New Temple and the New Land (40:1 - 48:35)
a). The New Temple (40:1 - 44:31)
b). The New Land (45:1 - 48:35)
Ezekiel 42
D. The Return Motif (37:1 - 48:35)
3). Renewal: The New Temple and the New Land (40:1 - 48:35)
a). The New Temple (Continued) (40:1 - 44:31)
1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy [holy holy] things: there shall they lay the most holy [holy holy] things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.
15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
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