Ezekiel 42:6

For 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.

Berean Standard Bible

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

5Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.

7An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:8The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

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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