Ezekiel 42:10

_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

Render it: Breadth-wise (was) the wall Ezekiel 42:7 toward the east; in front of the separate place and of the building (were) the chambers: i. e., on the east was “the wall” (“geder”); along the boundary wall of “the separate place” and of the “building” (the temple) lay the “chambers.”...

EXPOSITION This chapter furnishes a brief account of the priests' chambers in the outer court (Ezekiel 42:1), and a detailed measurement of the temple precincts (Ezekiel 42:15). EZEKIEL 42:1 The priests' chambers. EZEKIEL 42:1 The survey of the house having been completed, the seer was conducted by his guide into the outer court (see on Ezekiel 40:17), by the way toward the north, _i.e._ by the inner north gate (see...

THE CHAMBERS WERE IN THE THICKNESS OF THE WALL OF THE COURT TOWARD THE EAST,.... As there were chambers in the northern part of the outward court, some which looked to the north, and others to the south, so likewise some to the east; and these were built on the breadth, as it may be rendered, of the court wall to the east; signifying there will be churches raised in all the northern parts of the world: OVER AGAINST THE SEPARATE PLACE, AND OVER AGAINST THE BUILDING; as the other chambers were; Ezekiel 42:1....

CHAPTER 42 _ 1. The priest's chambers in the inner court (Ezekiel 42:1) _ 2. The final measurements (Ezekiel 42:15)...

On the northern (Ezekiel 42:1) and southern (Ezekiel 42:10) sides of the inner court and facing the Temple were two blocks of three-story buildings used as refectories (Ezekiel 42:13) and dressing rooms (Ezekiel 42:14; cf. Ezekiel 44:19) for the priests....

The chambers in the inner court. In the inner court on the two sides N. and S. of the house or temple proper were erected blocks of cells for the use of the priests, where they ate the holy things and deposited their sacred garments. They are those referred to Ezekiel 41:10. The block on the N. side is fully described (Ezekiel 42:1), and that on the S. of the house is said to be similar in all respects (Ezekiel 42:10). The block on the N. extended from the "separate place" to the N. wall of the inner court, a breadth of 50 cubits, all the space available. The block of cells had two wings, one 100 cubits long running along the "separate place," Fig. 3, G, the other 50 cubits long, Fig. 3, G, running along the N. wall of

AND FROM UNDER THESE CHAMBERS— _Under these chambers was the entrance to the east, so that they might be entered from the outer court._...

E. The Priest's Chambers in the Temple Yard 42:1-14 TRANSLATION (1) Then be brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north. (2) Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. (3) Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. (4) And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits-' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. (5) Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. (6) For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pil...

42:10 south, (c-12) According to the LXX and others. see ver. 12. The Hebrew text reads 'east,' but the 'east' had nothing to do with 'the separate place,' which ran round the three sides only, north, west, and south....