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Matthew Poole

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

Matthew Poole

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

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20

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 the chambers lay. Place a comma between building and toward.Ezekiel 42:2. “Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door”—i.e., before the separate place, which was that length. The seer had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20

Chapter 42Then 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 take this diagram home. And the separate place is that area, you'll notice, that surrounds the temple house itself. And he begins to describe for him here this separate place that was about the temple house, verse Ezekiel 42:13 there.where the priests that approach the LORD shall eat the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 42:1-20

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 cubits. These chambers were very numerous, in allusion to which our Saviour says, “In my Father’s house there are many mansions.” John 14:2. Ezekiel 42:13-14 . Chambers where the priests shall eat and lay the most holy things. Here is the ordinary use of upper rooms; the princes also and the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 42:3-5

Ezekiel 42:3-5And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward.Provision made in the temple for social intercourseBefore these chambers there were walks of five yards broad, in which those who had lodged in these chambers might meet for conversation, might walk and talk together for their mutual edification, might communicate their knowledge and experiences. For we are not to spend all our time between the church and the chamber, though a great deal of time may be spent to very... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 42:5-6

Ezekiel 42:5-6The glory of the Lord filled the house. The glory without the cloudThough God may forsake His people for a small moment, He will return with everlasting loving kindness. God’s glory filled the house, as it had filled the tabernacle which Moses set up and thee temple of Solomon. Now we do not find that ever the Shekinah did in that manner take possession of the second temple, and therefore this was to have its accomplishment in that glory of the Divine grace which shines so... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:5

Eze 42:5 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 kind of cock lofts, and not so fit for habitation. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:6

Eze 42:6 For they [were] in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the building] was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. Ver. 6. Therefore the building was straitened. ] As the rules of architecture direct, and as right reason required, lest the building should shrink under its own burden. Ne structura pondere dissiliret. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:7

Eze 42:7 And the wall that [was] without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof [was] fifty cubits. Ver. 7. Here the Rabbis call again for the help of their Elias. See on Ezekiel 40:6 . read more

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