Ezekiel 42
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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.
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

Before Perhaps this means, that the north door was

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.
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

before These seems to have been two rows of these chambers, and a walk between of ten cubits in width with an entrance into it from the chambers, of one cubit in width.

a walk

Ezekiel 42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which …

a way

Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to …

Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will …

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 than these. or, did eat of these.
than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost.

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.
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.
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 of.

Ezekiel 46:19 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the …

the entry. or, he that brought me
as one goeth. or, as he came

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.
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.
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.
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.

they be holy

Exodus 29:31 And you shall take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh …

Leviticus 6:14-16,26 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall …

Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten …

Leviticus 10:13,14,17 And you shall eat it in the holy place, because it is your due, and …

Leviticus 24:9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the …

Numbers 18:9 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: …

approach

Ezekiel 40:46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, …

Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, …

Numbers 16:5,40 And he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, Even to morrow …

Numbers 18:7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office …

Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD …

the most holy

Leviticus 2:3,10 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': …

Leviticus 6:14,17,25,29 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall …

Leviticus 7:1,6 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy…

Leviticus 10:13,17 And you shall eat it in the holy place, because it is your due, and …

Leviticus 14:13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin …

Leviticus 21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Numbers 1:9,10 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon…

Numbers 18:9 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: …

Numbers 18:10 In the most holy place shall you eat it; every male shall eat it: …

Nehemiah 13:5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they …

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.
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.
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

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He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

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He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

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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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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