Ezekiel 42:8 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“For the length of the chambers that {were} in the utter court {was} fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple {were} an hundred cubits.”

Ezekiel 42:8

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For they {were} in three {stories}, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore {the building} was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

And the wall that {was} without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof {was} fifty cubits.

For the length of the chambers that {were} in the utter court {was} fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple {were} an hundred cubits.

And from under these chambers {was} the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. {from under: or, from the place} {the entry: or, he that brought me} {as...: or, as he came}

The chambers {were} in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

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Ezekiel 42:1

"Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that {was} over against the separate place, and which {was} before the building toward the north."

Ezekiel 42:2

"Before the length of an hundred cubits {was} the north door, and the breadth {was} fifty cubits."

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}."

Ezekiel 42:4

"And before the chambers {was} a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north."

Ezekiel 42:5

"Now the upper chambers {were} shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. {were higher...: or, did eat of these} {than the lower...: or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost}"

Ezekiel 42:6

"For they {were} in three {stories}, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore {the building} was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground."

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