Ezekiel Chapter 42 verse 2 Holy Bible
Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
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On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,
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before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,
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Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
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Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
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At the front of the length `is' a hundred cubits `at' the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - With this verse the Authorized and Revised Versions begin a new sentence, and are in this at one with Smend; but the majority of expositors place the second verse under the regimen of the verb, "he brought me," in ver. 1, and understand the seer to state that he was planted down before the length (or, long side) of an hundred cubits, with the door toward the north, and the breadth fifty cubits. That is to say, the building which contained the sacristies, or priests' chambers, was a hundred cubits long and fifty bread. As the building on the separate place was also a hundred cubits long (Ezekiel 41:13), it might seem as if this erection ran exactly parallel to that, and this view is taken by Hengstenberg, Schroder, and Plumptre; but Kliefoth, Keil, and Currey, on the authority of Ezekiel 46:19, locate a priests' kitchen behind the priests' chambers towards the west, and reserve for it forty cubits, on the plausible ground that it would not likely be smaller in size than the sacrificial kitchen for the people (see Ezekiel 46:22). Hence, if the building under consideration began forty cubits east of the gizrah wall, it would extend twenty cubits over the end and along the length of the temple.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Before the length.--This verse is still a part of the same sentence, and means, "he brought me before the long side of 100 cubits with the door toward the north, and the breadth 50 cubits." The entrance being on the north was necessarily in the outer court, and the whole description requires that the long way of the building should be east and west. The width therefore of 50 cubits projected into the court just as far as the gateways of the inner court. The measurements of this "chamber" are external, since the prophet did not enter it.
