Ezekiel - 42:8



8 For the length of the rooms that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 42:8.

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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.
For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
For the length of the chambers of the outward court was fifty cubits: and the length before the face of the temple, a hundred cubits.
for the length of the cells that were against the outer court was fifty cubits; but behold, before the temple it was a hundred cubits.
for the length of the chambers that are to the outer court is fifty cubits, and of those on the front of the temple a hundred cubits.
For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits.
For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
For the length of the storerooms of the exterior court was fifty cubits, and the length before the face of the temple was one hundred cubits.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The length - From north to south.
Before the temple - This describes their position in a general way; more precisely they lay over against partly the "separate place" and partly the "temple-court" Ezekiel 42:1.

For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits,.... Which was the reason why the wall was of the same length, that it might be answerable to them; here length is put for breadth; see Ezekiel 42:2, this measure was from the north to south, as Lipman (x) observes:
and lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits; as the breadth of the wall and chambers was fifty, so in length, as they were over against the temple, they were an hundred cubits, as in Ezekiel 42:2, unless the account is to be taken thus; that the row of chambers towards the north were fifty cubits long, and the row towards the south over against the other was fifty cubits, and so both made a hundred; to which sense is the Septuagint version,
"for the length of the chambers that look to the outward court was fifty cubits, and those (that is, those that looked to the temple, or were before that) answered to them, the whole a hundred cubits;''
that is, both rows made a hundred cubits; but rather, as Lipman (y) says, the chambers contained from east to west a hundred cubits.
(x) Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 71. (y) Ibid.

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