Ezekiel 42:5
“Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Now the upper chambers were shorter,.... The chambers were in three stories, as in the following verse, one above…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Render: “And the upper chambers were” shortened, for galleries took off from them, from “the lower” and from “the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ezekiel 42:1-14
The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
The uppermost story was contracted by the gallery, so that its area was smaller than that of the other two stories.