Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20
The priests’ rooms (42:1-20)Ezekiel now gives further details concerning the rooms for the priests located in the inner court (see 40:44-47). There were two priests’ buildings, one on the north side of the temple proper, the other on the south.First the building on the north side is described. It was three storeys high and divided lengthways by a passage. On the temple yard side of this passage were three storeys consisting of one long narrow room on each storey. On the outer court side were... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 42:5-7
Ezekiel 42:5-7. 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, because the weight of the balconies was not supported by pillars, as the rooms over the cloisters were, but only by the wall. The wall that was without, &c., was fifty cubits The wall that enclosed these buildings was commensurate with the breadth of one of the cloisters of... read more