12Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
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So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; …
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.
Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)Here is, 1. An account of a building that was before the separate place (that is, before the temple), at the end towards the west (Ezek. 41:12), which is here measured, and compared (Ezek. 41:13) with the measure of the house, and appears to be of equal dimensions with it. This stood in a court by itself, which is measured (Ezek. 41:15) and its galleries, or chambers belonging to it, its posts and…
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