Ezekiel 42
DOYLYChap. XLII. ver. 1.—the utter court] Utter with respect to the temple itself; the court of the priests is meant. Howbignt, Abp. Newcome, Calmet.
4.—a way of one cubit; This some understand of an entrance at each end of the cloister. W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 42:5
- Now the upper chambers were shorter: &c.] The marginal reading is to be preferred; the sense of which is, “for the galleries did abate of these;” that is, took of these more than of the lowest and middlemost part of the building. The reason of this is assigned in the next verse. W. Lowth, Abp. Newcome.
Ezekiel 42:6
6.—had not pillars] To support the galleries or balconies; the two upper stories had balconies standing out of them, the breadth of which was taken out of the rooms themselves, and this made them so much the narrower, because the weight of the balconies was not supported by pillars, as the rooms over the cloisters of the outward court were, but only by the wall. W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 42:8
8.—and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.] The angel conducts the Prophet from the north side of the court to the south side, and in passing before the
temple he observes the dimensions of the cast front; see chap. xli. 14. Calmet, W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 42:10
10.—in the thickness of the wall] In the breadth of the wall; that is, in the breadth of ground which that wall enclosed. W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 42:11
- And the way before them] The alley or way of ten cubits within the chambers; see ver. 4. Calmet.
Ezekiel 42:13
13.—they be holy chambers.] The shewbread, the remainder of the meat offering, sin offering, and trespass offering, are expressly called the most holy things, Lev. vi. 14. 17; xxiv. 9; Numb. xviii. 9; and are distinguished from the holy things, such as are the peace offerings, first fruits, and tithes, Lev. xxi. 22. These were to be eaten within the precincts of the temple by the same laws. W. Lowth.
Ezekiel 42:14
- When the priests enter therein,] Within the inner court, chap. xliv. 17. W. Lowth.
then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court.] Moses had given the same direction, in saying, that the high priest and the inferiour priests should use their dress of ceremony when they entered into the tabernacle to perform their functions; insi-
The measures of the outward court. God’s glory cometh into the temple. approach to those things which are for the people.