Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

In Context

4In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.

6For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.

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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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