Ezekiel 42:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

BSB

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ASV

Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

KJV

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Now the upper chambers were shorter,.... The chambers were in three stories, as in the following verse, one above another; the middlemost were shorter than the lowermost, and the upper shorter than either; just the reverse of the chambers in Eze 41:7, they were not so high from the floor to the ceiling, nor so broad from side to side.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Shorter - At first view it should seem to refer to the length, but indeed it refers to the height of the chambers, of which the lowest chamber was highest, the second lower pitched than the first, yet of greater height than the uppermost between the floor and ceiling.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There were many, that there might be conveniences for all such devout people as Anna the prophetess, who departed not from the temple night or day, Luke ii. In my Father's house are many mansions. In his house on earth there are so; multitudes by faith have taken lodgings in his sanctuary, and yet there is room.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the middle-most, chambers, of the building.” The building rose in terraces, as was usual in Babylonian architecture, and so each of the two upper stories receded from the one below it.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהַלְּשָׁכ֥וֹת	ve.ha.le.sha.Khot	and the rooms	H3957 →
הָעֶלְיוֹנֹ֖ת	ha.'el.yo.Not	<the> upper	H5945 →
קְצֻר֑וֹת	ke.tzu.Rot	[were] short	H7114 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
יוֹכְל֨וּ	yokh.Lu	they consumed	H398 →
אַתִּיקִ֜ים	'a.ti.Kim	galleries	H862 →
מֵהֵ֗נָה	me.He.nah	from them
מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת	me.ha.tach.to.Not	more than the lower [rooms]	H8481 →
וּמֵהַתִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת	u.me.ha.ti.kho.Not	and more than the middle [rooms]	H8484 →
בִּנְיָֽן׃	bin.Yan	[the] structure	H1146 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk3

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 41:7
The 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…
leads to
- 1 Kings 6:8
  The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
- Matthew 13:32
  Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
- Hebrews 6:1
  Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel