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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that time. We shall only observe, in general, 1. That about the temple, which was the place of public... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 42:1

He brought me forth into the utter court - He brought him out from the temple into the court of the priests. This, in reference to the temple, was called the outer court; but the court of the people was beyond this. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1

The survey of the house having been completed, the seer was conducted by his guide into the outer court (see on Ezekiel 40:17 ), by the way toward the north, i.e. by the inner north gate (see Ezekiel 40:23 ) and from the outer court into t he chamber that was over against the separate place , and which was before the building toward the north . That this chamber, or these chambers ( לִשְׁכָּה being a collective noun, though in Ezekiel 42:4 and Ezekiel 42:5 it occurs in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1

The outer court. There was an outer court in the temple of Jerusalem, held to be less sacred than the courts nearer to the holy place; to this court Gentiles were admitted. I. THERE IS AN OUTER COURT IN ALL RELIGION . There are always people who seem to stand midway between the Church and the world. In some cases they are like Elijah's contemporaries, halting between two opinions ( 1 Kings 18:21 ). They may be described as like the scribe who was "not far from the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:1

Utter court - Outward court, so Ezekiel 42:3.Into the chamber ... before the building - to the chambers (See L, Plan II)... over against etc. “The building” is the temple-building, for this row of chambers was built against eighty cubits of the wall bounding “the separate place” and twenty cubits of the wall of the temple-court. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 42:1-4

Ezekiel 42:1-4. Then he brought me forth into the outer court Outer with respect to the temple itself, or the outer part of the court, which court was that of the priests, as appears from what follows. Into the chamber that was over against the separate place Chamber is put for chambers. Before the length, &c., was the north door This north door faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty, which was the proportion of all the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20

The priests’ rooms (42:1-20)Ezekiel now gives further details concerning the rooms for the priests located in the inner court (see 40:44-47). There were two priests’ buildings, one on the north side of the temple proper, the other on the south.First the building on the north side is described. It was three storeys high and divided lengthways by a passage. On the temple yard side of this passage were three storeys consisting of one long narrow room on each storey. On the outer court side were... read more

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