Ezekielchapter 42

A.Chambers where the priests eat the holy thingsvv. 1-14

1 Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side. 2 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide. 3 Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court. 4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building. 6 For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors. 7 An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court. 8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long. 9 And below these chambers was the entrance on the east side as one enters them from the outer court. 10 On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building, 11 with a passageway in front of them, just like the chambers that were on the north. They had the same length and width, with similar exits and dimensions. 12 And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward. 13 Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy. 14 Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

B.The wall measured on all four sidesvv. 15-20

15 Now when the man had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and he measured the area all around: 16 With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long. 17 He measured the north side to be five hundred cubits long. 18 He measured the south side to be five hundred cubits long. 19 And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long. 20 So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

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Chapter summary

The priests' chambers are measured, in blocks north and south of the separate place, three stories high with galleries and a walk before them.

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The priests' chambers are measured, in blocks north and south of the separate place, three stories high with galleries and a walk before them. Their purpose is holiness, not architecture: 'there shall the priests that are near unto Jehovah eat the most holy things' (the meal-offering, the sin-offering and the trespass-offering) and there they shall lay the garments in which they minister, and put on others before going out to the people. Then the man measures the whole precinct on all four sides, five hundred reeds each way, a perfect square with a wall around it, 'to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.

Context

Prophecy · Ezekiel — Ezekiel overview

A. 1–14 Chambers where the priests eat the holy things
B. 15–20 The wall measured on all four sides

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Ezekiel 417 verses
- Ezekiel 41:2The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
- Ezekiel 41:7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
- Ezekiel 41:10and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:12Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:13Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
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Ezekiel 406 verses
- Ezekiel 40:3So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
- Ezekiel 40:5And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.
- Ezekiel 40:17Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- Ezekiel 40:20He also measured the length and width of the gateway of the outer court facing north.
- Ezekiel 40:46and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
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Ezekiel 426 verses
- Ezekiel 42:1Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
- Ezekiel 42:4In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- Ezekiel 42:7An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
- Ezekiel 42:10On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
- Ezekiel 42:12And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.
- Ezekiel 42:13Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
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Ezekiel 442 verses
- Ezekiel 44:5The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 44:19When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.
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Ezekiel 461 verse
- Ezekiel 46:19Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end
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Song of Solomon 71 verse
- Song of Solomon 7:5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
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Matthew 71 verse
- Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
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Luke 131 verse
- Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.