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

Ezekiel 42:4 · KJV

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

— Ezekiel 42:4

Verse 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}.

Verse 5

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}

Ezekiel 42 — Context

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.

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.

Cross References

Ezekiel 46:19

After he brought me through the entry, which {was} at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there {was} a place on the two sides westward.

Luke 13:24

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Matthew 7:14

Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}