Ezekiel 42:2

2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.^[a]

Ezekiel 42:2 in Other Translations

2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

2 The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.

2 This structure, whose entrance opened toward the north, was 175 feet long and 87 feet wide.

2 The length of the house on the north was one hundred seventy-five feet, and its width eighty-seven and a half feet.

2 Along the length [of the chambers], which was 175 feet, there was an entrance on the north; the width was 87 and a half feet.

Ezekiel 42:2 Meaning and 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, 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 of them; and to this agrees the Arabic version: this account of them makes them larger than Solomon's temple, ( 1 Kings 6:2 ) , which may signify the largeness of these churches; the number of men in them; and the abundance of spiritual blessings and privileges, of light and knowledge, peace and joy, possessed by them: but the measure being oblong, and not foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem, ( Revelation 21:16 ) , shows they are not yet come to stability and perfection.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 82.

Ezekiel 42:2 In-Context

1 Then the man led me northward into the outer court and brought me to the rooms opposite the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall on the north side.

2 The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.

3 Both in the section twenty cubits from the inner court and in the section opposite the pavement of the outer court, gallery faced gallery at the three levels.

4 In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

5 Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 175 feet long and 88 feet wide or about 53 meters long and 27 meters wide