Ezekiel 42:2

2 The length of the building whose door faced north was ¹a hundred cubits,^[a] and ²the breadth fifty cubits.

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 he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.

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

3 Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

4 And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.

5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

Cross References

• 1. [Ezekiel 41:13]
• 2. [ver. 8]

Footnotes

• [a]. A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters