Eze 40:3 | TNotes | STEP | 40:3 a man whose face shone like bronze: An angelic guide would host Ezekiel’s tour of the Temple. The bronze color is reminiscent of the heavenly creatures described in the opening vision (see 1:7 ). Unlike the guide for his previous visionary tour of the earthly Temple in chs 8–11 , this guide was armed only with a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod , implements of construction rather than destruction. Measurement is a key theme in the chapters that follow, enabling the prophet to highlight the importance of certain parts of the Temple by making them larger and more precisely determined than other parts.

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‏ Ezekiel 40:3

40:3 ^a a man whose face shone like bronze: An angelic guide would host Ezekiel’s tour of the Temple. The bronze color is reminiscent of the heavenly creatures described in the opening vision (see 1:7 ^b). Unlike the guide for his previous visionary tour of the earthly Temple in chs 8–11 ^c, this guide was armed only with a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod, implements of construction rather than destruction. Measurement is a key theme in the chapters that follow, enabling the prophet to highlight the importance of certain parts of the Temple by making them larger and more precisely determined than other parts.