Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 42:7
The wall; not of the chambers, but some wall at distance from them; perhaps some wall that might keep up a terrace-walk. Over against the chambers; therefore was northward from the chambers. The utter court; the court of the men, or of Israel, which is called utter with respect to this, wherein this building stood, as this was called utter, Ezekiel 42:1,Ezekiel 42:3, with respect to the court that was more inward. On the forepart of the chambers; which evidently shows that the wall of fifty... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 42:6
In three stories; built high one over another. As the pillars of the courts; as thick and strong as those were, but of the slenderer and weaker make. The building, the highest room of the building, was straitened; was laid at nearer distance than the middlemost from the lowest, or than the roof of the lowest from the ground. read more