Ezekiel 42:6

For 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.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And the upper cells, because the galleries encroached on them, were shorter than the lower, and than the middle-most of the building.

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:

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the side-chambers of the middle [floor] was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [floor], and out of the middle into the third.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 42:2-15

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 1 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. 2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 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. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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