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Ezekiel 42:10

(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fasting;   Moses;   Nations;   Priests and Levites;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hedge;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the south, there were chambers facing the temple yard and the western building,
Hebrew Names Version
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
New American Standard Bible
In the thickness of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.
New Century Version
at the start of the wall beside the courtyard. There were rooms on the south side, which were across from the private area and the building.
Amplified Bible
In the width of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, were chambers;
Geneva Bible (1587)
The chambers were in the thicknesse of the wall of the court towarde the East, ouer against the separate place, and ouer against the building.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, facing the separate area and facing the building, there were chambers.
Berean Standard Bible
On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers, adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
Complete Jewish Bible
In the width of the courtyard wall on the east, facing the separated yard and facing the building, there were rooms,
Darby Translation
In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the south, before the separate place, and before the building, were cells;
Easy-to-Read Version
The entrance was at the start of the wall beside the courtyard. There were rooms on the south side, by the restricted area and the other building. These rooms had a
George Lamsa Translation
The rooms were in the breadth of the wall of the court at the eastern gate opposite the separate place, and in front of the building where the rooms were.
Lexham English Bible
All along the width of the wall of the courtyard eastward in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers.
Literal Translation
In the width of the wall of the court eastward, to the face of the separate area, and to the face of the building were rooms.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
thorow the thicke wall of the fore courte towarde the east, right ouer agaynst the separated buyldinge.
American Standard Version
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,
King James Version (1611)
The chambers were in the thickenes of the wall of the court toward the East, ouer against the separate place, and ouer against the building.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the thicknesse of the wall of the court towarde the east before the separate place, and before the building of the chambers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
by the opening of the walk at the corner; and the south parts were toward the south, toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, and so were the chambers.
English Revised Version
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
World English Bible
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the brede of the wal of the halle, that was ayens the eest weie in the face of the bilding departid. And treseries weren bifore the bilding,
Update Bible Version
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place and before the building, there were chambers,
Webster's Bible Translation
The chambers [were] in the thickness of the wall of the court towards the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
New English Translation
At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers
New King James Version
Also there were chambers in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, opposite the separating courtyard and opposite the building.
New Living Translation
On the south side of the Temple there were two blocks of rooms just south of the inner courtyard between the Temple and the outer courtyard. These rooms were arranged just like the rooms on the north.
New Life Bible
There were rooms in the width of the wall of the open space toward the east, over from the other open space and the other building.
New Revised Standard
The width of the passage was fixed by the wall of the court. On the south also, opposite the vacant area and opposite the building, there were chambers
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east facing the secluded place and facing the enclosing wall, were chambers. n
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the breadth of the outward wall of the court that was toward the east, over against the separate building, and there were chambers before the building.
Revised Standard Version
where the outside wall begins. On the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers
Young's Literal Translation
In the breadth of the wall of the court eastward, unto the front of the separate place, and unto the front of the building, [are] chambers.
THE MESSAGE
On the south side along the length of the courtyard's outside wall and fronting on the Temple courtyard were rooms with a walkway in front of them. These were just like the rooms on the north—same exits and dimensions—with the main entrance from the east leading to the hallway and the doors to the rooms the same as those on the north side. The design on the south was a mirror image of that on the north.

Contextual Overview

1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north. 2 On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, 3 Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor. 4 And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north. 5 And the higher rooms were shorter: for the covered ways took up more space from these than from the lower and middle rooms. 6 For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level. 7 And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long. 8 For the rooms in the outer square were fifty cubits long: and in front of the Temple was a space of a hundred cubits. 9 And under these rooms was the way in from the east side, as one goes into them from the outer square at the head of the outer wall. 10 (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the thickness: Rather, "the breadth of the wall," that is, the breadth of ground which it enclosed. Ezekiel 41:12

over against: These south chambers were exactly like those on the north. Ezekiel 42:1, Ezekiel 42:13, Ezekiel 41:13-15

Cross-References

Genesis 27:29
Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
Genesis 27:37
And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?
Genesis 37:8
And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.
Genesis 44:9
If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.
1 Samuel 26:17
And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.
1 Kings 18:7
And while Obadiah was on his way, he came face to face with Elijah; and seeing who it was, he went down on his face and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east,.... As there were chambers in the northern part of the outward court, some which looked to the north, and others to the south, so likewise some to the east; and these were built on the breadth, as it may be rendered, of the court wall to the east; signifying there will be churches raised in all the northern parts of the world:

over against the separate place, and over against the building; as the other chambers were; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render it: Breadth-wise (was) the wall Ezekiel 42:7 toward the east; in front of the separate place and of the building (were) the chambers: i. e., on the east was “the wall” (“geder”); along the boundary wall of “the separate place” and of the “building” (the temple) lay the “chambers.”


 
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