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Ezekiel 42:8

in Ezekiel 42

For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.

KJV

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

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This verse in Ezekiel 42

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The length - From north to south. Before the temple - This describes their position in a general way; more precisely they lay over against partly the “separate place” and partly the “temple-court” Eze 42:1.

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

those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long

The two rows are unequal: the row on the outer court runs fifty cubits, and the row facing the temple a hundred. Albert Barnes places the longer row opposite the temple courtyard and the temple. The side nearest the sanctuary received the greater length.

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

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits,....

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.

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֹ֣רֶךְ[the] length of

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • הַלְּשָׁכ֗וֹתthe rooms

    haleshakhotH3957 →47 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֛רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֶחָצֵ֥ר[belonged] to the courtyard

    lechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • הַחִֽצוֹנָ֖ה<the> outer

    hachitzonahH2435 →25 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים[was] fifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • אַמָּ֑הcubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֛הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵ֥י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַהֵיכָ֖לthe temple

    haheikhalH1964 →80 times

  • מֵאָ֥הa hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • אַמָּֽה׃cubit[s]

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 41:13–14Then 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.2 works

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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