Ezequiel 42:1

Las habitaciones para los sacerdotes

1 El hombre me sacó al atrio exterior, en dirección al norte, y me hizo entrar a las habitaciones que estaban hacia el norte, frente al patio cerrado y frente al edificio detrás del templo.

Ezequiel 42:1 Meaning and 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 north:''

and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate
place;
or holy of holies; see ( Ezekiel 41:12 ) , over against or before this, to the north of it, were a chamber or chambers; the singular being put for the plural; whither the prophet was brought to take a view of, being a new and distinct building from all others he had seen before; unto one of them, or to the place of them, as Jarchi, where they stood: there were two rows of them opposite to each other, and a walk between them; they are afterwards called the north and south chambers, ( Ezekiel 42:13 ) : and which was before the building toward the north;
this chamber or chambers were over against or before the whole fabric, to the north of it. The Jews here confess their ignorance, there being nothing in the first or second temple answerable to these. Lipman ^F19 expressly says these chambers were not in the second temple; perhaps they may design the Protestant reformed churches in the northern parts of the world; the religion of Protestants is by the Papists called the northern heresy: and if our northern churches are here pointed at and described, it is a great honour that is done them, to have a particular apartment allotted them in this wonderful building; compare ( Psalms 48:2 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 71.

Ezequiel 42:1 In-Context

1 El hombre me sacó al atrio exterior, en dirección al norte, y me hizo entrar a las habitaciones que estaban hacia el norte, frente al patio cerrado y frente al edificio detrás del templo.

2 Todo esto medía cincuenta metros de largo por el lado norte, y veinticinco metros de ancho.

3 Frente a los diez metros del atrio interior, y frente al enlosado del atrio exterior, había en los tres pisos unas galerías, las cuales quedaban unas frente a las otras.

4 Frente a las habitaciones había un pasillo interior de cinco metros de ancho y cincuenta de largo. Las puertas de las habitaciones daban al norte.

5 Las habitaciones del piso superior eran más estrechas que las del piso inferior y las del piso intermedio, porque las galerías les quitaban más espacio a las de arriba.