![]() ![]() The Books of Samuel portray the Temple as having a Phoenician architect, and in Phoenicia it was the Babylonian ell which was used to measure the size of parts of ships. The smaller of the Egyptian ells measured 17.72 in (45 cm), but the standard Babylonian ell, cast in stone on one of the statues of King Gudea, was 49.5 cm (19.49 in), and the larger Egyptian ell was between 52.5 and 52.8 cm (20.67 and 20.79 in). The Egyptians also used two different ells, one of which - the royal ell - was a sixth larger than the common ell this royal measurement was the earlier of the two in Egyptian use, and the one which the Pyramids of the 3rd and 4th Dynasties seem to be measured in integer multiples of. Ezekiel's ell, by which he gave measurements in his guided vision through a future Jerusalem Temple, is thus one sixth larger than the standard ell, for which an explanation seems to be suggested by the Book of Chronicles the Chronicler writes that Solomon's Temple was built according to "cubits following the first measure", suggesting that over the course of time the original ell was supplanted by a smaller one. The biblical ell is closely related to the cubit, but two different factors are given in the Bible Ezekiel's measurements imply that the ell was equal to 1 cubit plus 1 palm ( Tefah), while elsewhere in the Bible, the ell is equated with 1 cubit exactly. 1 ell ( amah) = 2 spans ( zeret), or 6 palms. ![]()
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