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Verse [Ezekiel 42:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/1). ***He brought me forth into the utter court*** — He brought him out from the temple into the *court of the priests*. This, in reference to the temple, was called the *outer court*; but the *court* *of the people* was beyond this.

Verse [Ezekiel 42:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/4). ***A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward*** — This seems to have been a sort of *parapet*.

Verse [Ezekiel 42:14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/14). ***They shall lay their garments wherein they minister*** — The priests were not permitted to wear their *robes* in the *outer* *court*. These vestments were to be used *only when they ministered*; and when they had done, they were to deposit them in one of the chambers mentioned in the *thirteenth* verse.

Verse 16. - 19. ***He measured the east - north - south - west side*** — Each of which was *five hundred* reeds: and, as the building was square, the *area* must have been nearly *thirteen thousand* paces. No wonder this was called a city. See [Ezekiel 40:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/40/2).

Verse [Ezekiel 42:18](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/18). [Ezekiel 42:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/16).

Verse [Ezekiel 42:19](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/19). [Ezekiel 42:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/16).

Verse [Ezekiel 42:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/42/20). ***It had a wall round about-to make a separation between**********the sanctuary and the profane place.*** — The *holy place* was that which was consecrated to the Lord; into which no heathen, nor stranger, nor any in a state of impurity, might enter. The *profane* *place* was that in which men, women, Gentiles, pure or impure, might be admitted. *Josephus* says *War*, lib. vi., c. 14, that in his time there was a wall built before the entrance *three* cubits high, on which there were posts fixed at certain distances, with inscriptions on them in *Latin* and *Greek*, containing the laws which enjoined *purity* on those that entered; and forbidding all strangers to enter, on pain of death. See *Calmet*.

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