Ezekiel 42,Ezekiel 48

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42

This chapter continues and concludes the describing and measuring of this mystical temple, which it is very hard to understand the particular architecture of, and yet more hard to comprehend the mystical meaning of. Here is, I. A description of the chambers that were about the courts, their situation and structure (Ezek. 42:1-13), and the uses for which they were designed, Ezek. 42:13, 14. II. A survey of the whole compass of ground which was taken up with the house, and the courts belonging... read more

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:15-20

We have attended the measuring of this mystical temple and are now to see how far the holy ground on which we tread extends; and that also is here measured, and found to take in a great compass. Observe, 1. What the dimensions of it were. It extended each way 500 reeds (Ezek. 42:16-19), each reed above three yards and a half, so that it reached every way about an English measured mile, which, the ground lying square, was above four miles round. Thus large were the suburbs (as I may call them)... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 42 In this chapter are a description of some chambers in the northern part of the outward court, Ezekiel 42:1 , an account of the use made of them by the priests, Ezekiel 42:13 , the measuring of the area, or whole compass of ground, on which the whole building before measured stood, with the wall that surrounded it, Ezekiel 41:15 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north ,.... After the dimensions of the gates and courts of this building had been shown, and that of itself, the holy and most holy place, with the ornaments thereof; the prophet is brought by his guide into the outward court, which encompassed the building to the north part of it; probably he came out of the north gate of the house into it. So the Targum renders it, "by the way of the gate which is open to the way of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:2

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door ,.... That is, the north door of the house opened to a space that lay between that and the chambers, which was a hundred cubits long: and the breadth was fifty cubits ; or the sense is, that the prophet was brought, as Noldius renders the words F20 Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 82. , to a place whose length was an hundred cubits towards the north door ; so that they describe the length and breadth of these chambers, the whole... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:3

Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court ,.... Starckius thinks that the breadth of the chambers being fifty cubits, is here parted, and disposed of, and accounted for. The chambers were in two rows over against each other; that row which looked to the south, and so to the temple, was twenty cubits broad; and because it led to the temple, its court is called the inner court: and over against the pavement which was for the utter court : or that row which was over... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:4

And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward ,.... That is, within side, or between the two rows of chambers, there was a walk of this breadth, for those that lodged in the chambers to walk in for their pleasure and profit, and to converse with one another. Such who by these "chambers" understand places of retirement for private devotion, or the duties of the closet, which fit and prepare for public worship, as these chambers were near and in sight of the temple, so by... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:6

For they were in three stories ,.... Not only the galleries or posts, but the chambers; they were one over another; there were the lowermost, middlemost, and uppermost; which, as before, may denote the difference in churches, and the different states, conditions, and characters of those that are in them; some being fathers, others young men, and others little children: or their different offices and relations; some being pastors, others deacons, and others private members: or their knowledge... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:15-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:6

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