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Ezekiel 42:8 — Meaning and Application
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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
Verse in Context
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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.
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"
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."
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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