Ezekiel 42:6

For three stories, they were; and had not pillars like the pillars of the courts; for this cause, it differed from the lowest and from the middle, from the ground.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 highest chambers, were shortened,—because the galleries took away therefrom more than from the lowest or from the middle in structure.

7And as for the wall that was without. answering to the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:8The entrance of the lowest story, was on the right side of the house,—and, by winding stairs, went they up unto the middle [story], 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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