Ezekiel 42:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Ezekiel 42:5 —

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Ezekiel 41:7
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-14)

The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square. I. Here is a description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that ti…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. shorter--that is, the building became narrower as it rose in height. The chambers were many: so “in My Father’s house are many mansions” (Joh 14:2); and besides these there was much “room” still left (compare Lu 14:22). The chambers, though private, were near the temple. Prayer in our chambers is to prepare us for public devotions, and to help us in improving them.