Ezekiel 42:2
in Ezekiel 42The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
KJV
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
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This verse in Ezekiel 42
Commentary
5 notes on this verseChapter XLII, verses 1 and following: 'And he brought me to the outer court by the way leading to the north, and he brought me to the treasury which was opposite the separated building and opposite the temple facing the north. On the face of the length of one hundred cubits of the north gate, and the breadth of fifty cubits.' In this place, the Septuagint edition differs greatly from the Hebrew truth.
This site's exposition
into the utter court
on Ezekiel 42:1-8
The guide brings the prophet into the outer court to the priests' chambers facing the separate place, a three-story block with galleries, the upper floors set back because the galleries took from their breadth, no pillars like the courts' pillars, a walk of ten cubits before the doors. The vision's method continues here as everywhere in these chapters: architecture recorded as an eyewitness tour rather than a builder's plan, which is why the commentators differ over details the text never resolves. The measurements are carried as the text gives them, an hundred cubits and fifty, and the exposition does not force a reconstruction the words do not draw.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He brought me “before” a row of chambers 100 cubits long, east and west. “The door” of which lay on the north side of the chambers. The priests entered from the outer court (O); the breadth of this block of chambers was fifty cubits, north and south Eze 42:8.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Before the length of an hundred cubits--that is, before "the separate place," which was that length (Eze 41:13). He had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner court (Eze 40:44-46).
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| פְּנֵי־ | penei- | [the] face of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| אֹ֙רֶךְ֙ | ʾorekh | length | H753 → | 95 times |
| אַמּ֣וֹת | ʾamot | cubits | H520 → | 247 times |
| הַמֵּאָ֔ה | hameah | the hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| פֶּ֖תַח | petach | [the] entrance of | H6607 → | 164 times |
| הַצָּפ֑וֹן | hatzafon | the north | H6828 → | 153 times |
| וְהָרֹ֖חַב | veharochav | and the breadth | H7341 → | 101 times |
| חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים | chamishim | [was] fifty | H2572 → | 163 times |
| אַמּֽוֹת׃ | ʾamot | cubits | H520 → | 247 times |
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
פְּנֵי־[the] face of
penei-H6440 →2123 times
אֹ֙רֶךְ֙length
ʾorekhH753 →95 times
אַמּ֣וֹתcubits
ʾamotH520 →247 times
הַמֵּאָ֔הthe hundred
hameahH3967 →581 times
פֶּ֖תַח[the] entrance of
petachH6607 →164 times
הַצָּפ֑וֹןthe north
hatzafonH6828 →153 times
וְהָרֹ֖חַבand the breadth
veharochavH7341 →101 times
חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים[was] fifty
chamishimH2572 →163 times
אַמּֽוֹת׃cubits
ʾamotH520 →247 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
1 stopEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
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.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:47
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
- Ezekiel 40:47
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).