Ezekiel 42:5

Ezekiel 42:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
• New International Version (NIV)Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Now the upper chambers were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

Context of Ezekiel 42:5

3over against the twenty [cubits] that pertained to the inner court, and over against the pavement that pertained to the outer court; there was gallery against gallery in the third [story]; 4and before the cells was a walk of ten cubits in breadth, [and] a way of a hundred cubits inward; and their entries were toward the north. And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building. 6For they were in three [stories], but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore [the third story] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle-most from the ground. 7And the wall that was without, answering to the cells, toward the outer court in the front of the cells, its length was fifty cubits:

Ezekiel 42:5 word by word

וְהַלְּשָׁכ֥וֹת הָעֶלְיוֹנֹ֖ת קְצֻר֑וֹת כִּֽי־יוֹכְל֨וּ אַתִּיקִ֜ים מֵהֵ֗נָה מֵֽהַתַּחְתֹּנ֛וֹת וּמֵהַתִּֽכֹנ֖וֹת בִּנְיָֽן׃Read the interlinear

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 42:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the middle-most, chambers, of the building.” The building rose in terraces, as was usual in Babylonian architecture, and so each of the two upper stories receded from the one below it.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. 55. shorter--that is, the building became narrower as it rose in height. The chambers were many: so "in My Father's house are many mansions" (Joh 14:2); and besides these there was much "room" still left (compare Lu 14:22). The chambers, though private, were near the temple. Prayer in our chambers is to prepare us for public devotions, and to help us in improving 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