King James Version
What Does Ezekiel 42:7 Mean?
“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.”
Context
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Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. were higher: or, did eat of these than the lower: or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost
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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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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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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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And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. from under: or, from the place the entry: or, he that brought me as: or, as he came
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(7) **The wall that was without.—**We have two indications of what wall is here meant. In the first place, the word itself is neither of those which have been hitherto used, but one signifying a *fence-wall,* and is translated in Ezekiel 13:5; Ezekiel 22:30, *hedge;* and in Numbers 22:24, a vineyard wall. Its length is also said to be fifty cubits (the breadth of the chamber). It must, therefore, have been a screen wall at one end of the chambers, and it could not have been at the western end, as that was otherwise occupied (Ezekiel 46:19-20). It was then at the eastern end, and was doubtless for the purpose of screening the windows at that end from the outer court while the priests were changing their garments. The word here translated *over against* is not the one used in Ezekiel 42:1; Ezekiel 42:3, and may equally well be rendered *parallel to.*
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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