Ezekiel 42:14

_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....

Verse Ezekiel 42:14. _THEY SHALL LAY THEIR GARMENTS WHEREIN THEY MINISTER_] The priests were not permitted to wear their _robes_ in the _outer_ _court_. These vestments were to be used _only when they ministered_; and when they had done, they were to deposit them in one of the chambers mentioned in the _thirteenth_ verse....

Compare Leviticus 16:23. THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE FOR THE PEOPLE - namely, the outer court....

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...

WHEN THE PRIESTS ENTER THEREIN,.... Into the holy place, these holy chambers, and approach unto God, and eat of the most holy things, and minister therein to the Lord: THEN SHALL THEY NOT GO OUT OF THE HOLY PLACE INTO THE UTTER COURT; denoting, not that the ministers of the word should not concern themselves in secular employments, but give themselves up to the word and prayer, though so to do is right; but the perseverance of the saints in the house and worship of God, in grace and holiness, and in all the duties of religion; these should not relinquish their profession, desert their station and the service of God, and return to the world; but continue as pillars in the temple of God, and go no more out, but abide by the truths and ordinances of the Gospel: BUT THERE THEY SHALL LAY THEIR GARMENTS WHEREIN THEY MINISTER, FOR THEY ARE HOLY; these signify Christ's robe of righteousness an...

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....

Uses to which the chambers were put. These cells serve two purposes: the priests shall eat in them the most holy things; and they shall deposit there the sacred garments when they put them off to go into the outer court among the people. The "most holy things" were the portion of the meal-offering not consumed on the altar (Leviticus 2:3; Leviticus 2:10; Leviticus 7:9-11; Leviticus 10:12), and the flesh of the sin and trespass offerings, except the flesh of the sin-offering for the high-priest and congregation, which was burnt outside the sacred buildings ...

THERE THEY SHALL LAY THEIR GARMENTS— "They shall not go into the court of the temple in their vestments, but shall lay them up in some of these chambers." The priestly garments were only to be used in the time of their ministration. See Exodus 39:41.Ezekiel 44:17; Ezekiel 44:31. Calmet and Lowth....

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...