Ezekiel Chapter 42

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Introduction: In the last two weeks, we have looked at some of the details of the Millennial Temple. In chapter 42, we cover further details of the main Temple structure. There will be a description of some chambers in the northern part of the outer court.

I. Description of the Northern Outer Court

Eze 42:1 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.

Eze 42:2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

Ezekiel was taken by his heavenly guide into a room there which will be adjacent to the holy of holies on the north side of the Temple. The ‘utter court’ is the outer court, specifically on the north side of the main Temple structure. There will be a distance of 150 feet from the main Temple structure to the north door. Within the 150 feet, there will be chambers seventy-five feet in width.

Note: On Cubits, these are approximations. Most historians believe a cubit to be between 1.5 to 2 ft per cubit.

Eze 42:3 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.

Eze 42:4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

Along the north wall of the outer court of the greater Temple and extending inwardly for thirty feet were special chambers which rose three stories in height. Before these special chambers will be a plaza or walkway of fifteen feet in width. Apparently some sort of curb will rise about one-and-a-half feet toward the doors to these apartments.

Eze 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.

Eze 42:6 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.

Eze 42:7 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.

Eze 42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

Evidently, with each succeeding story of apartments, they will become narrower in depth. In verse 7, we find there will be a wall (perhaps the curb mentioned in verse 4) extending the full length of the 75 feet length of these chambers. There will be another set of chambers along the south wall of the Temple. The total wall along these chambers will be one-hundred cubits which is 150 feet.

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