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Ezekiel 42:3

Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court,.... Starckius thinks that the breadth of the chambers being fifty cubits, is here parted, and disposed of, and accounted for. The…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

These “chambers” (compare Eze 46:19) did not reach to the western wall; between it and them lay a court for cooking (M), probably forty cubits by thirty; such court with its approaches filled up the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 42:1-14

The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square.

I. Here is a…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The breadth of the block having been mentioned in Eze 42:42; Eze 42:42 adds in what directions this breadth extended or lay on either hand (N. and S.), viz. towards the 20 cubits of the separate place…