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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 42:3 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Eze 42:3	Strong Concordance	Over against the twenty [06242] cubits which were for the inner [06442] court [02691], and over against the pavement [07531] which was for the utter [02435] court [02691], was gallery [0862] against [06440] gallery [0862] in three [07992] stories.
	King James	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.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
These "chambers" (compare Eze 46:19) did not reach to the western wall; between it and them lay a court for cooking (M), probably forty cubits by thirty; such court with its approaches filled up the corner of fifty cubits square, as in the case of the kitchen-courts for the people. In these chambers were dining-rooms for the priests (see Eze 42:13), and baths, for no priest could enter upon his daily ministry without having first bathed. "The chambers" extended beyond "the separate place" to the wall of the temple-court, on the other side of which wall was the twenty cubits space. The "pavement" (H) was no doubt continued along the temple-wall, so that these priests' chambers, like the thirty chambers, stood upon "a pavement," and were, on the east side, "over against this pavement." Translate Eze 42:1-3, "Then he brought me forth into the outward court, the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers which were over against the separate place, and which were over against the building, toward the north along the front of the length of an hundred cubits, with the door by the north, and the breadth fifty cubits over against the twenty cubits which were in the inner court, and over against the pavement which was in the outward court, gallery upon gallery in three stories."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

These "chambers" (compare Eze 46:19) did not reach to the western wall; between it and them lay a court for cooking (M), probably forty cubits by thirty; such court with its approaches filled up the corner of fifty cubits square, as in the case of the kitchen-courts for the people. In these chambers were dining-rooms for the priests (see Eze 42:13), and baths, for no priest could enter upon his daily ministry without having first bathed. "The chambers" extended beyond "the separate place" to the wall of the temple-court, on the other side of which wall was the twenty cubits space. The "pavement" (H) was no doubt continued along the temple-wall, so that these priests' chambers, like the thirty chambers, stood upon "a pavement," and were, on the east side, "over against this pavement."

Translate Eze 42:1-3, "Then he brought me forth into the outward court, the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers which were over against the separate place, and which were over against the building, toward the north along the front of the length of an hundred cubits, with the door by the north, and the breadth fifty cubits over against the twenty cubits which were in the inner court, and over against the pavement which was in the outward court, gallery upon gallery in three stories."

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Against gallery - That is, a gallery on the south part toward the inner court, and a gallery toward the pavement north - ward, and between the backs of these galleries were chambers.

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¹ Then he brought me forth [03318] into the utter [02435] court [02691], the way toward [01870] the north [06828]: and he brought [0935] me into the chamber [03957] that was over against the separate place [01508], and which was before the building [01146] toward the north [06828].
² Before [06440] the length [0753] of an hundred [03967] cubits [0520] was the north [06828] door [06607], and the breadth [07341] was fifty [02572] cubits [0520].
³ Over against the twenty [06242] cubits which were for the inner [06442] court [02691], and over against the pavement [07531] which was for the utter [02435] court [02691], was gallery [0862] against [06440] gallery [0862] in three [07992] stories.

¹³ Then said [0559] he unto me, The north [06828] chambers [03957] and the south [01864] chambers [03957], which are before [06440] the separate place [01508], they be holy [06944] chambers [03957], where the priests [03548] that approach [07138] unto the LORD [03068] shall eat [0398] the most [06944] holy things [06944]: there shall they lay [03240] the most [06944] holy things [06944], and the meat offering [04503], and the sin offering [02403], and the trespass offering [0817]; for the place [04725] is holy [06918].

¹⁹ After he brought [0935] me through the entry [03996], which was at the side [03802] of the gate [08179], into the holy [06944] chambers [03957] of the priests [03548], which looked [06437] toward the north [06828]: and, behold, there was a place [04725] on the two sides [03411] westward [03220].