Ezekiel 42
Continuing our Commentary on Ezekiel we will pass over the present
chapter without saying anything. The main purpose of this Commentary
is to give an overall impression and concentrate on points connected directly
with the identification of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
[Ezekiel 42:1] THEN HE BROUGHT ME FORTH INTO THE UTTER
COURT, THE WAY TOWARD THE NORTH: AND HE BROUGHT ME INTO THE CHAMBER
THAT WAS OVER AGAINST THE SEPARATE PLACE, AND WHICH WAS BEFORE
THE BUILDING TOWARD THE NORTH.
[Ezekiel 42:2] BEFORE THE LENGTH OF AN HUNDRED CUBITS WAS THE NORTH DOOR, AND THE BREADTH WAS FIFTY CUBITS.
[Ezekiel 42:3] OVER AGAINST THE TWENTY CUBITS WHICH WERE FOR THE INNER
COURT, AND OVER AGAINST THE PAVEMENT WHICH WAS FOR THE UTTER COURT, WAS GALLERY
AGAINST GALLERY IN THREE STORIES.
[Ezekiel 42:4] AND BEFORE THE CHAMBERS WAS A WALK TO
TEN CUBITS BREADTH INWARD, A WAY OF ONE CUBIT; AND THEIR DOORS TOWARD THE
NORTH.
[Ezekiel 42:5] NOW THE UPPER CHAMBERS WERE SHORTER: FOR THE GALLERIES
WERE HIGHER THAN THESE, THAN THE LOWER, AND THAN THE MIDDLEMOST OF
THE BUILDING.
[Ezekiel 42:6] 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.
[Ezekiel 42:7] 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.
[Ezekiel 42:8] FOR THE LENGTH OF THE CHAMBERS THAT
WERE IN THE UTTER COURT WAS FIFTY CUBITS: AND, LO, BEFORE THE TEMPLE WERE
AN HUNDRED CUBITS.
[Ezekiel 42:9] AND FROM UNDER THESE CHAMBERS WAS THE ENTRY ON THE EAST SIDE, AS ONE GOETH INTO THEM FROM THE UTTER COURT.
[Ezekiel 42:10] THE CHAMBERS WERE IN THE THICKNESS OF THE WALL OF THE
COURT TOWARD THE EAST, OVER AGAINST THE SEPARATE PLACE, AND OVER AGAINST
THE BUILDING.
[Ezekiel 42:11] AND THE WAY BEFORE THEM WAS LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF THE
CHAMBERS WHICH WERE TOWARD THE NORTH, AS LONG AS THEY, AND AS BROAD AS THEY:
AND ALL THEIR GOINGS OUT WERE BOTH ACCORDING TO THEIR FASHIONS, AND ACCORDING
TO THEIR DOORS.
[Ezekiel 42:12] AND ACCORDING TO THE DOORS OF THE CHAMBERS
THAT WERE TOWARD THE SOUTH WAS A DOOR IN THE HEAD OF THE WAY, EVEN THE WAY
DIRECTLY BEFORE THE WALL TOWARD THE EAST, AS ONE ENTERETH INTO THEM.
[Ezekiel 42:13] THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, THE NORTH CHAMBERS AND THE SOUTH
CHAMBERS, WHICH ARE BEFORE THE SEPARATE PLACE, THEY BE HOLY CHAMBERS, WHERE
THE PRIESTS THAT APPROACH UNTO THE LORD SHALL EAT THE MOST HOLY THINGS: THERE
SHALL THEY LAY THE MOST HOLY THINGS, AND THE MEAT OFFERING, AND THE
SIN OFFERING, AND THE TRESPASS OFFERING; FOR THE PLACE IS HOLY.
[Ezekiel 42:14] WHEN THE PRIESTS ENTER THEREIN, THEN SHALL THEY NOT
GO OUT OF THE HOLY PLACE INTO THE UTTER COURT, BUT THERE THEY SHALL LAY THEIR
GARMENTS WHEREIN THEY MINISTER; FOR THEY ARE HOLY; AND SHALL PUT ON
OTHER
GARMENTS, AND SHALL APPROACH TO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE FOR THE PEOPLE.
[Ezekiel 42:15] NOW WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF
MEASURING THE INNER HOUSE, HE BROUGHT ME FORTH TOWARD THE GATE WHOSE
PROSPECT IS TOWARD THE EAST, AND MEASURED IT ROUND ABOUT.
[Ezekiel 42:16] HE MEASURED THE EAST SIDE WITH THE
MEASURING REED, FIVE HUNDRED REEDS, WITH THE MEASURING REED ROUND ABOUT.
[Ezekiel 42:17] HE MEASURED THE NORTH SIDE, FIVE HUNDRED REEDS, WITH THE MEASURING REED ROUND ABOUT.
[Ezekiel 42:18] HE MEASURED THE SOUTH SIDE, FIVE HUNDRED REEDS, WITH THE MEASURING REED.
[Ezekiel 42:19] HE TURNED ABOUT TO THE WEST SIDE, AND MEASURED FIVE HUNDRED REEDS WITH THE MEASURING REED.
[Ezekiel 42:20] HE MEASURED IT BY THE FOUR SIDES: IT HAD A WALL ROUND
ABOUT, FIVE HUNDRED REEDS LONG, AND FIVE HUNDRED BROAD, TO MAKE A SEPARATION
BETWEEN THE SANCTUARY AND THE PROFANE PLACE.
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