The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
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The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side. The three of them were of one measure. The posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
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And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
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And the cells of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure; and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 40:10 And the little chambers of the gate…
Eze 40:10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward [were] three on this side, and three on that side; they three [were] of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
Ver. 10. And the little chambers.] Here lay the doorkeepers, whose office was to keep out the unclean. {2Ch 23:19} Oh for such officers among us!
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This is a repetition of what the 7th verse…
This is a repetition of what the 7th verse hath already acquainted us with; I only observe, these chambers were for the priests and Levites to lodge in during their ministration, according to their courses in the temple, where they kept watch continually night and day. The whole was framed in very great harmony and just proportions.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the little chambers of the gate eastward,.... Where…
And the little chambers of the gate eastward,.... Where the man now was, and was measuring; and the like chambers there were in the other gates, and of the same measure; of which chambers See Gill on Eze 40:7,
were three on this side, and three on that side; three on the right side of the porch to the north, and three on the left side of it to the south:
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they three were of one measure; one reed, or three yards and a half square, as in Eze 40:7.
and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side; on the right and left, north and south of the inward gate of the porch, which measure was two cubits, Eze 40:9.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Chambers - These chambers were for the priests and…
Chambers - These chambers were for the priests and Levites to lodge in during their ministration.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. The measurer, having passed through the whole length…
10. The measurer, having passed through the whole length of the gateway E. to W., and named each particular thing on one side of it, viz. threshold (Eze_40:6), guardroom (Eze_40:7), wall space between guardrooms (Eze_40:7), inner threshold to porch (Eze_40:7), porch and its posts (Eze_40:8-9), with their dimensions, now states that there were three guardrooms on each side, all of the same size, and also some other points. For little chambers, guardrooms.
the posts had one measure] Probably the “posts” here are not the jambs of the door of the porch (Eze_40:9), but the wall-fronts or spaces between the guardrooms (Eze_40:7), Fig, 1, gh, ik. There were two of these on each side of the passage, each measuring five cubits.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Having reached the furthest limit westward, the guide retraces…
Having reached the furthest limit westward, the guide retraces his steps backward in an easterly direction, noting that on the side of the covered way opposite to that already examined the same arrangements existed as to "lodges" and "posts," the latter of which ( are here first mentioned in connection with the guardrooms, and must be understood as signifying pillars or jambs in front of the walls. Their measurements, which were equal, were probably as in ver. 9, two cubits square.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.