Ezekiel 42:6

Ezekiel 42:6 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)The rooms on the top floor had no pillars, as the courts had; so they were smaller in floor space than those on the lower and middle floors.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

Context of Ezekiel 42:6

4In front of the [attached] chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and one hundred cubits long; and their entrances were on the north. 5Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took away more space from them than from the chambers on the lower and middle stories of the building; for they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the [outer] courtyards; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. 7And the outer wall, by the side of the chambers, toward the outer courtyard facing the chambers, was fifty cubits long. 8For the length of the chambers which were in the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, while the length of those facing the temple was a hundred cubits.

Ezekiel 42:6 word by word

כִּ֤י מְשֻׁלָּשׁוֹת֙ הֵ֔נָּה וְאֵ֤ין לָהֶן֙ עַמּוּדִ֔ים כְּעַמּוּדֵ֖י הַחֲצֵר֑וֹת עַל־כֵּ֣ן נֶאֱצַ֗ל מֵהַתַּחְתּוֹנ֛וֹת וּמֵהַתִּֽיכֹנ֖וֹת מֵהָאָֽרֶץ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• in threeשָׁלַשׁshâlash · to do threeH8027
• but had not pillarsעַמּוּד‛ammûd ‛ammûd · pillarH5982
• of the courtsחָצֵרchâtsêr · courtH2691
• was straitenedאָצַל'âtsal · to reserveH680
• more than the lowestתַּחְתּוֹןtachtôn tachtôn · lowerH8481
• and the middlemostתִּיכוֹןtîykôn tîykôn · middleH8484
• from the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776

Cross-references for Ezekiel 42:6

• Ezekiel 41:6The side chambers were three stories [high], one above another, and thirty chambers in each story; and the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on their inward side all around, so that they would be attached, but not attached to the wall of the temple itself.
• 1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the lowest side chamber was on the right [or south] side of the house; and they would go up winding stairs to the middle [level], and from the middle to the third.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 42:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6The 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.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-12The priests' rooms were on three levels at the back of the sanctuary. Priests entered from the top level in the inner court (Ezekiel 42:12) and exited at the bottom in the outer court (42:9). These rooms served as transition spaces for the priests' duties as they moved between the inner and outer courts.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-202. Before the length of an hundred cubits--that is, before "the separate place," which was that length (Eze 41:13). He had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner court (Eze 40:44-46). He now returns to take a more exact view of them.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Profane
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Desire of All Nations
• Ezekiel
• Leviticus
• Priest, High
• Priests and Levites
• Stories
• Strait; Straiten; Straitly

Commentaries on Ezekiel 42

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings