--- title: "Ezekiel 42 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Ezekiel 42 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, an" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42" --- [ Read](/kjv/ezekiel/42)[ Commentary](/study/ezekiel/42)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/ezekiel/42) Audio 1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that *was* over against the separate place, and which *was* before the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits *was* the north door, and the breadth *was* fifty cubits. 3 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*. 4 And before the chambers *was* a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers *were* shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.** 6 For they *were* in three *stories*, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore *the building* was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7 And the wall that *was* without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof *was* fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that *were* in the utter court *was* fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple *were* an hundred cubits. 9 And from under these chambers *was* the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.*** 10 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. 11 And the way before them *was* like the appearance of the chambers which *were* toward the north, as long as they, *and* as broad as they: and all their goings out *were* both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that *were* toward the south *was* a door in the head of the way, *even* the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13 ¶ Then said he unto me, The north chambers *and* the south chambers, which *are* before the separate place, they *be* holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place *is* holy. 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy *place* into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they *are* holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to *those things* which *are* for the people. 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect *is* toward the east, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.* 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 ¶ He turned about to the west side, *and* measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred *reeds* long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. [Ezekiel 41](/study/ezekiel/41) [Ezekiel 43](/study/ezekiel/43) ## Commentary To verse 1 **XLII.** This chapter describes what is not only new in this vision, but also unknown in either the former or the later Temple. [Ezekiel 42:1-14](/kjv/ezekiel/42/1-14) are occupied with the account of certain chambers for the priests adjoining the inner court, but actually within the area of the outer. From [Ezekiel 42:14](/kjv/ezekiel/42/14) it is plain that these chambers, although thus situated in the outer court, were considered for ecclesiastical purposes as belonging to the inner. [Ezekiel 42:15-20](/kjv/ezekiel/42/15-20) describe a very large area enclosing the Temple and its courts as an additional safeguard to its sanctity. (1) **Utter court.—***Outer court* ([see Note on 40:31](/kjv/see-note-on/40/31)). The “into” of the next clause should be “unto”; so also in [Ezekiel 46:19](/kjv/ezekiel/46/19). **Before the building.—**The preposition is the same as that translated just before, and also twice in [Ezekiel 42:3](/kjv/ezekiel/42/3), “over against.” The length of this chamber, or series of chambers, was 100 cubits ([Ezekiel 42:2](/kjv/ezekiel/42/2)), and as it appears from [Ezekiel 46:19](/kjv/ezekiel/46/19) that it did not reach to the western wall, it must have extended the whole remaining length of the building to the west of the separate place, across the separate place itself, and probably also across the chambers at the west end of the Temple (see Plan II., H, H [[Ezekiel 40:44-49](/kjv/ezekiel/40/44-49)]). The chamber on the north is particularly described in [Ezekiel 42:1-9](/kjv/ezekiel/42/1-9), and in [Ezekiel 42:10-12](/kjv/ezekiel/42/10-12) mention is made more briefly of a corresponding one on the south. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42","name":"Ezekiel 42 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Ezekiel 42 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, an","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers","name":"ellicotts commentary for english readers"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel","name":"Ezekiel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/ezekiel/42","name":"42"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```