Discovery BoxEzekiel 40:16 
Context40:16 There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. 1
Ezekiel 40:22
Context40:22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
Ezekiel 41:25-26
Context41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy 2 of wood on the front of the outside porch. 41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.
1 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).
2 tn Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.
