Ezekiel 42:9

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

Ezekiel 42:9 in Other Translations

KJV
9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
ESV
9 Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.
NLT
9 There was an eastern entrance from the outer courtyard to these rooms.
MSG
9 The first-floor rooms had their entrance from the east, coming in from the outside courtyard.
CSB
9 At the base of these chambers there was an entryway on the east side as one enters them from the outer court.

Ezekiel 42:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 42:9

And from under these chambers
Or, "from the lower part of these chambers" F26; or, "from the lowest" of them there was a space, as may be supplied, and as is by Cocceius and Starchius; and as there was a wall to the west of them, so there was a void space to the east; and as follows: the entry on the east side:
or, "he that brought me from the east" F1, as the Keri; and coming eastward to these chambers, one must needs go through this space: as one goeth into them from the utter court;
if a man went eastward into those chambers from the outward court he must go through this space, which lay to the east of the lowest chambers: or the sense is, that from under the north chambers to the south was an entry on the east side, which led from one to the other.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 (halh twkvlh txtymw) "et ab ima, parte exedrarum", Vatablus; "et infra calles has [fuisse spatium]", Cocceius, Starckius.
F1 (aybmh Mydqhm) "is qui deducebat me ab oriente", Junius & Tremellius; "quumque is qui introduxerat me ab orientes", Piscator.

Ezekiel 42:9 In-Context

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.
10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms
11 with a passageway in front of them. These were like the rooms on the north; they had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. Similar to the doorways on the north

Cross References 1

  • 1. Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 46:19
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