Ezekiel 42:1-9

The Rooms for the Priests

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.^[a]

3 Both in the section twenty cubits^[b] 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^[c] long.^[d] 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.

6 The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.

7 There was an outer wall parallel to the rooms and the outer court; it extended in front of the rooms for fifty cubits.

8 While the row of rooms on the side next to the outer court was fifty cubits long, the row on the side nearest the sanctuary was a hundred cubits long.

9 The lower rooms had an entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

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Ezekiel 42:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 42

In this chapter are a description of some chambers in the northern part of the outward court, Eze 42:1-12, an account of the use made of them by the priests, Eze 42:13,14, the measuring of the area, or whole compass of ground, on which the whole building before measured stood, with the wall that surrounded it, Eze 41:15-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 7

1. ver 13
2. S Exodus 27:9; Ezekiel 41:12-14
3. Ezekiel 40:17
4. Ezekiel 41:15
5. Ezekiel 41:16
6. Ezekiel 46:19
7. Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 46:19

Footnotes 4

[a]. That is, about 175 feet long and 88 feet wide or about 53 meters long and 27 meters wide
[b]. That is, about 35 feet or about 11 meters
[c]. Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew "and one cubit"
[d]. That is, about 18 feet wide and 175 feet long or about 5.3 meters wide and 53 meters long