"Over against the twenty {cubits} which {were} for the inner court, and over against the pavement which {was} for the utt…" — Ezekiel 42:3

Ezekiel 42:3 · KJV

“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}.”

— Ezekiel 42:3

Verse 2

Before the length of an hundred cubits {was} the north door, and the breadth {was} fifty cubits.

Verse 4

And before the chambers {was} a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

Ezekiel 42 — Context

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.

Before the length of an hundred cubits {was} the north door, and the breadth {was} fifty cubits.

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}.

And before the chambers {was} a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

Now the upper chambers {were} shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. {were higher...: or, did eat of these} {than the lower...: or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost}

Cross References

Ezekiel 41:15-16

And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which {was} behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; {galleries: or, several walks, or, walks with pillars}

Ezekiel 41:10

And between the chambers {was} the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

Ezekiel 40:17-18

Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, {there were} chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers {were} upon the pavement.

Song of Solomon 1:17

The beams of our house {are} cedar, {and} our rafters of fir. {rafters: or, galleries}

2 Chronicles 7:3

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, {saying}, For {he is} good; for his mercy {endureth} for ever.

Ezekiel 42:5

Song of Solomon 7:5

Thine head upon thee {is} like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king {is} held in the galleries. {Carmel: or, crimson} {held: Heb. bound}