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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Lamentationes 40:44
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Et extra portam interiorem, gazophylacia cantorum in atrio interiori, quod erat in latere port respicientis ad aquilonem: et facies eorum contra viam australem: una ex latere port orientalis, qu respiciebat ad viam aquilonis.
Et extra portam interiorem exedrae duae, in atrio interiori; una erat in latere portae respicientis ad aquilonem, et facies eius contra viam australem, et una ex latere portae australis, quae respiciebat ad viam aquilonis.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the inner: Ezekiel 40:23, Ezekiel 40:27
chambers: Ezekiel 40:7, Ezekiel 40:10, Ezekiel 40:29, 1 Chronicles 6:31, 1 Chronicles 6:32, 1 Chronicles 16:41-43, 1 Chronicles 25:1-31, Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 27:9 - the court 1 Kings 6:5 - built Ezekiel 46:19 - the entry
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers,.... These singers are true believers in Christ, members of Gospel churches; whose duty and privilege it is to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; which is a part of internal, spiritual, and evangelical worship, Ephesians 5:19, these are the spiritual harpers, that have harps in their hands, and make melody in their hearts, and are able to sing the songs of electing, redeeming, calling, pardoning, justifying, and adopting grace; these deservedly have a place in the churches of Christ, in the inward court, being inward court worshippers, even all such who sing with the spirit and the understanding; for these chambers were in the inward court: the prophet being brought through the inner northern gate, into the open space between the inward court, saw these chambers; for it follows,
in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; in that part of the court which lay near the north gate, where now the prophet and his guide were:
and their prospect was toward the south; that is, some of these chambers, one row of them, were by the side of the north gate, and these faced the south; north and south being opposite to each other:
one at the side of the east gate, having the prospect toward the north: another row of chambers for the singers was in that part of the inner court which was on the side of the east gate, on the north side of it, and so faced the north part of the court. The Septuagint version, if admitted, makes the sense of it more clear, but different,
"and he brought me into the inner court, and behold two chambers in the inner court; one at the back of the gate that looks to the north, bearing to the south; and one at the back of the gate to the south, looking to the north.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Without - Outside of the gate in the inner court. See N, Plan II.
Singers - These were Levites of particular families, those of Heman, Asaph, and Merari, whose genealogy is carefully traced up to Levi (see marginal reference). These chambers (N, Plan II) may have been for the “singers and priests” who were for the time being engaged in the services of the temple. Other chambers (Ezekiel 42:1 ff) were for the use of the “priests” at other times; and the Levites and singers, when “not” on duty, would find accommodation in the thirty chambers of the outer court. If there is a departure here from the symmetry elsewhere observed, it may be accounted for by the fact that as the sacrifices were to be made on the “north” side of the altar, and therefore the “tables” for the sacrifices were on that side only, so those who had charge of the house and its singers might have rooms near. Others correct the Hebrew text by the Septuagint, and read the passage thus: And without the “inner gate” two chambers (i. e., rows of chambers) “in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate, and their prospect toward the south, one at the side of the south gate, and the prospect toward the north.”
