Ezekiel 42:5

Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these more than from the lower and the middle in the building.

World English 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

4Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

6For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was set back more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.

Read all of Ezekiel 42

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ezekiel 42:5