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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:5

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 in Babylonian architecture, and so each of the two upper stories receded from the one below it. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:6

The front of the higher stories was not supported on pillars, but there was a narrowing from “the lowest” (chambers) “and” from “the middlemost” (chambers) “from the ground.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:7

The “wall” here must be one from north to south, fencing off from the outer court the passage along the east side of the chambers, and therefore fifty cubits long. read more

Joseph Benson

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

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 42:5

were higher than = took away from. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 42:6

Ezekiel 42:6. For they were in three stories— The two upper stories had balconies projecting from them, the breadth of which was taken out of the rooms themselves, which rendered them so much the narrower, because the weight of the balconies was not supported by pillars, as the rooms over the cloisters of the inner court were, but only by the wall. See Houbigant's note. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:5

5. shorter—that is, the building became narrower as it rose in height. The chambers were many: so "in My Father's house are many mansions" ( :-); and besides these there was much "room" still left (compare Luke 14:22). The chambers, though private, were near the temple. Prayer in our chambers is to prepare us for public devotions, and to help us in improving them. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 42:1-14

The priests’ eating and dressing rooms 42:1-14This is a very difficult section to interpret because the description of these structures is obscure in the Hebrew text. read more