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Ezekiel 42:6

in Ezekiel 42

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

KJV

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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This verse in Ezekiel 42

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The front of the higher stories was not supported on pillars, but there was a narrowing from “the lowest” (chambers) “and” from “the middlemost” (chambers) “from the ground.”

This site's exposition

northward into the outer court

on Ezekiel 42:1-8

The guide brings the prophet to the chambers opposite the courtyard, where gallery faced gallery, the upper chambers smaller because the galleries took more space. An inner walkway ten cubits wide ran before the doors. The measurements stand as the text gives them, a hundred cubits and fifty.

This site's exposition

they had no pillars

With no pillars to carry the floors, each story rested on the one below and stepped back from it, as Albert Barnes reads the narrowing. The rooms were many. Matthew Henry finds room in them for worshipers like Anna, who stayed in the temple night and day (Luke 2:37).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

"Where the treasuries were lower on the upper levels because the porticoes that protruded from the lower and middle parts of the building supported them. These porticoes were narrow and did not have columns like the columns of the courtyards, so they protruded from the lower and middle parts of the building by fifty cubits." It follows: And their doors to the north, where the treasuries were in the lower and middle parts: because the porticoes which stood out from the lower and middle parts of the building supported them.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

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.
For they were in three stories,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙[were] divided into three parts

    meshulashotH8027 →

  • הֵ֔נָּהthey

    henahH2007 →30 times

  • וְאֵ֤יןand not

    veeinH369 →789 times

  • לָהֶן֙[belonged] to them

    lahen

  • עַמּוּדִ֔יםcolumns

    ʾamudimH5982 →111 times

  • כְּעַמּוּדֵ֖יlike [the] columns of

    keamudeiH5982 →111 times

  • הַחֲצֵר֑וֹתthe courtyards

    hachatzerotH2691 →191 times

  • עַל־there-

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כֵּ֣ן-fore

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • נֶאֱצַ֗לit was shortened

    neetzalH680 →

  • מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹתmore than the lower [rooms]

    mehatachtonotH8481 →13 times

  • וּמֵהַתִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹתand more than the middle [rooms]

    umehatikhonotH8484 →11 times

  • מֵהָאָֽרֶץ׃from the ground

    mehaaretzH776 →2504 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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 41:6

    The 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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:10

      He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

    • 1 Kings 6:5–6

      Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

    • 1 Peter 1:5

      who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

    • Ezekiel 40:17

      Then 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,

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 41:6–7

      The 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…

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 42 →

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; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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