What does Ezekiel 42:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were highera than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building."
Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the middle-most, chambers, of the building.” The building rose in terraces, as was usual i...
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 roo...
WERE HIGHER THAN. took away from....
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 an...
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 t...
NOW THE UPPER CHAMBERS WERE SHORTER: FOR THE GALLERIES WERE HIGHER THAN THESE, THAN THE LOWER, AND THAN THE MIDDLEMOST OF THE BUILDING. _ The upper chambers were shorter - i:e., the building became...
THE NEW TEMPLE Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N. side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure, li...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 42 BUILDINGS FOR THE PRIESTS – EZEKIEL 42:1-14 V1 Then the man led me north int...
FOR THE GALLERIES WERE HIGHER THAN THESE. — Translate this verse, _And the upper chambers were shortened, because the galleries took off from them_ (literally, _eat of them_)_ in comparison with the l...
וְ הַ לְּשָׁכֹ֥ות הָ עֶלְיֹונֹ֖ת קְצֻרֹ֑ות כִּֽי ־יֹוכְל֨וּ אַתִּיקִ֜ים מֵ הֵ֗נָה מֵֽ הַ תַּחְתֹּנֹ֛ות...
THE SANCTUARY THE fundamental idea of the theocracy as conceived by Ezekiel is the literal dwelling of Jehovah in the midst of His people. The Temple is in the first instance Jehovah's palace, where H...
The next section of description deals with the general scheme of buildings surrounding the Temple proper. On the north and south sides were chambers, which are described. These were the holy chambers...
_Above. The higher stories are not so lofty._...
When we consider how numerous those chambers were, may we not without violence, suppose they are intended to typify the many mansions in the Church above? At least they will serve to remind us of them...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43. The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we find...
NOW THE UPPER CHAMBERS WERE SHORTER,.... The chambers were in three stories, as in the following verse, one above another; the middlemost were shorter than the lowermost, and the upper shorter than ei...
Now the upper chambers [were] shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. Ver. 5. _Now the upper chambers were shorter._] As being a ki...
_Now the upper chambers were shorter_, &c. The two upper stories had balconies standing out of them, the breadth of which was taken out of the rooms themselves, and made them so much the narrower, bec...
THE CELLS OF THE PRIESTS...
WERE HIGHER THEN THESE: Or, did eat of these THEN THE LOWER, AND THEN THE MIDDLEMOST OF THE BUILDING: Or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost...
WERE SHORTER: at first view it should seem to refer to the length, but indeed it refers to the height of the chambers, of which the lowest chamber was highest pitched from the floor to the ceiling; th...
Ezekiel 42:5 upper H5945 chambers H3957 shorter H7114 (H8803) galleries H862 more H398 (H8799) from H2007 lower H8481 middle H8484 building H1146 were higher than these - or, did eat of these, Ezekie...
‘Now the upper chambers were smaller, for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and middlemost in the building. For they were in three storeys, and they did not have pillars lik...
CONTENTS: Further description of the temple. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Same as Chap. 40. KEY WORD: Temple....
Ezekiel 42:4. _Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits._ This chapter describes the rows of chambers as a hundred cubits long, and an entrance of one cubit on each side, which make the way two cu...
_And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward._ PROVISION MADE IN THE TEMPLE FOR SOCIAL INTERCOURSE Before these chambers there were walks of five yards broad, in which those who...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 42:1 Ezekiel is led to the OUTER COURT. He describes the construction of the CHAMBERS in the wall of the court’s north area (vv. Ezekiel 42:1). Clearly the same arrangement is...
THE CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS. (Chap. 42) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 42:1. “INTO THE CHAMBER”—to the chambers; the Hebrew is a collective noun. “THE BUILDING TOWARDS THE NORTH.” The direction in which...
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 pr...
CHAPTER 42. CHAMBERS OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS BOUNDARY WALLS. Ezekiel 42:1. _And he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chamber which is over again...
Then he brought me into the outer court, to the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was against the separate place (Ezekiel 42:1), And as I say, I'm going to leave you with this. You may t...
Ezekiel 41:7; Ezekiel 42:6...
Shorter — At first view it should seem to refer to the length, but indeed it refers to the height of the chambers, of which the lowest chamber was highest, the second lower pitched than the first, yet...