Chapter 42

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he brought Ezek 40:2-3, Ezek 40:24, Ezek 41:1

the utter court Ezek 40:20; Rev 11:2

chamber This seems to denote a row of chambers in three stories; which appear to have been situated in the inner court (here called the outer court in reference to the temple, Ezek 42:13-14), just before the separate place, at the entrance from the north. Ezek 42:4, Ezek 41:9, Ezek 41:12-15


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Before Perhaps this means, that the north door was 100 cubits from the entrance into the court; and that the door-way, or portico, was 50 cubits in length; or, that it faced one of the cloisters, the length of which was 100 cubits, and its breadth 50, which was the proportion of all the cloisters. Ezek 42:2


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Over One side of these buildings looked upon the void space about the temple of twenty cubits, and the other toward the pavement belonging to the outer court.

the twenty Ezek 41:10

the pavement Ezek 40:17-18; 2Chr 7:3

gallery against Ezek 41:15-16; Song 1:17, Song 7:5


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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 Ezek 42:11

a way Matt 7:14; Luke 13:24


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were higher than these or, did eat of these, Ezek 41:7

than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost. Ezek 42:6


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Ezek 41:6; 1Kgs 6:8


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before Passing from the north to the south side of the temple (Ezek 42:11-12), the prophet was shewn that the space of ground, which was before the temple on the east, measured 100 cubits. Ezek 42:8


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from under or, from the place of, Ezek 46:19

the entry or, he that brought me

as one goeth or, as he came


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the thickness Rather, "the breadth of the wall," that is, the breadth of ground which it enclosed. Ezek 41:12

over against These south chambers were exactly like those on the north. Ezek 42:1, Ezek 42:13, Ezek 41:13-15


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Ezek 42:2-8


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was a door Ezek 42:9


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they be holy Exod 29:31; Lev 6:14-16, Lev 6:26, Lev 7:6, Lev 10:13-14, Lev 10:17, Lev 24:9; Num 18:9

approach Ezek 40:46; Lev 10:3; Num 16:5, Num 16:40, Num 18:7; Deut 21:5

the most holy Lev 2:3, Lev 2:10, Lev 6:14, Lev 6:17, Lev 6:25, Lev 6:29, Lev 7:1, Lev 7:6, Lev 10:13, Lev 10:17, Lev 14:13, Lev 21:22; Num 1:9-10; Num 18:9-10; Neh 13:5


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they not go Ezek 44:19; Exod 28:40-43, Exod 29:4-9; Lev 8:7, Lev 8:13, Lev 8:33-35; Luke 9:62

and shall put Isa 61:10; Zech 3:4-5; Rom 3:22, Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27; 1Pet 5:5


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measuring Ezek 41:2-5, Ezek 41:15

gate Ezek 40:6-16


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side Heb. wind

the measuring reed Estimating the reed at 10+ feet, 500 reeds will be nearly equal to a mile; so that from this statement we find the temple, with its outbuildings, was built on a square, nearly an English mile on each side, and four miles in circumference. This not only far exceeds the size of Solomon's temple, or that after the captivity, which was only 500 cubits, or a furlong, on each side, and exactly half a mile in circuit; but is nearly equal to the whole extent of Jerusalem itself, which, when greatest, was but 33 furlongs in circumference, somewhat less than 4+ miles. This seems clearly to intimate, that the vision cannot be explained of any temple that has hitherto been built, or indeed of any literal temple, but figuratively and mystically of the spiritual temple, the church under the gospel, and its spiritual glory. Ezek 40:3; Zech 2:1; Rev 11:1-2


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it had Ezek 40:5; Song 2:9; Isa 25:1, Isa 26:1, Isa 60:18; Mic 7:11; Zech 2:5

five hundred Ezek 45:2, Ezek 48:20; Rev 21:12-17

a separation Ezek 22:26, Ezek 44:23, Ezek 48:15; Lev 10:10; Luke 16:26; 2Cor 6:17; Rev 21:10-27


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