American Standard Version
Ezekiel 42:4
4And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
Ezekiel 42:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
- New International Version (NIV)In front of the rooms was an inner passageway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In front of the chambers, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, at a distance of one cubit; and their doors faced north.
Context of Ezekiel 42:4
2Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3Over against the twentycubitswhich belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits’ breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north. 5Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. 6For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
Read all of Ezekiel 42Ezekiel 42:4 word by word
וְלִפְנֵ֨י הַלְּשָׁכ֜וֹת מַהֲלַךְ֩ עֶ֨שֶׂר אַמּ֥וֹת רֹ֙חַב֙ אֶל־הַפְּנִימִ֔ית דֶּ֖רֶךְ אַמָּ֣ה אֶחָ֑ת וּפִתְחֵיהֶ֖ם לַצָּפֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ezekiel 42:4
- Ezekiel 42:11And the way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their egresses were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
- Matthew 7:14For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.
- Luke 13:24Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 42:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward - This seems to have been a sort of parapet.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Or, In the front “of the chambers” was a gangway “of ten cubits” breadth (leading) “inward,” a path “of one cubit, and their doors toward the north.” The “gangway” had stairs to the upper stories, while along the north front of the building there was a kerb of one cubit, as before the guard-chambers Ezekiel 40:12, on which kerb the north doors (leading to the basement) opened. Others follow the Septuagint “And opposite the chambers a walk 10 cubits in…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
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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
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