John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:5
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 either; just the reverse of the chambers in Ezekiel 41:7 , they were not so high from the floor to the ceiling, nor so broad from side to side. The reason follows: for the galleries were higher than these ; or, "ate out of these" F23 יוכלו מהנה Keri, יאכלו "comedebant ex ipsis",... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-14
The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square. I. Here is a description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that time. We shall only observe, in general, 1. That about the temple, which was the place of public... read more