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Ezekiel 42:7

in Ezekiel 42

An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

KJV

And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

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This verse in Ezekiel 42

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The “wall” here must be one from north to south, fencing off from the outer court the passage along the east side of the chambers, and therefore fifty cubits long.

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

An outer wall in front of the chambers

Albert Barnes takes this wall to run north to south along the chambers' east side, fencing their passage off from the outer court. Its fifty cubits match the chambers' width. It shields the priests' rooms, used in verses 13 and 14 for eating holy food and changing garments.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

"And there was an outer courtyard by the treasury, which was in the way of the outer court before the treasury: the length of it was fifty cubits. Because the length of the treasuries of the outer court was fifty cubits and the length before the face of the temple was one hundred cubits." After this it is said: And the outer court was surrounded by a wall, with treasuries along the outside walls.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the wall that was without over against the chambers,....

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.

  • וְגָדֵ֤רand [the] wall

    vegaderH1447 →12 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לַחוּץ֙[was] to the outside

    lachutzH2351 →164 times

  • לְעֻמַּ֣ת<to> close to

    leumatH5980 →32 times

  • הַלְּשָׁכ֔וֹתthe rooms

    haleshakhotH3957 →47 times

  • דֶּ֛רֶךְ[the] direction of

    derekhH1870 →707 times

  • הֶחָצֵ֥רthe courtyard

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַחִֽצוֹנָ֖ה<the> outer

    hachitzonahH2435 →25 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פְּנֵ֣י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַלְּשָׁכ֑וֹתthe rooms

    haleshakhotH3957 →47 times

  • אָרְכּ֖וֹlength its

    ʾarekoH753 →95 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים[was] fifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 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

4 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 42:10

    On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 42:1

      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.

    • Ezekiel 42:13

      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…

    • 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,

    • Ezekiel 41:12–15

      Now 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.

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.
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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 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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