In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
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In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty cubits long and thirty wide. These four in the corners were the same size.
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In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
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In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four in the corners were of one measure.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 46:22 In the four corners of the court…
Eze 46:22 In the four corners of the court [there were] courts joined of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corners [were] of one measure.
Ver. 22. Courts joined.] Or made with chimneys. Caminata, vaporaria. See on Eze 46:21.
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 They were then an oblong quadrangle, and all of…
They were then an oblong quadrangle, and all of equal capacity for length and breadth.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And there was a row of building round about…
And there was a row of building round about in them,.... Within the courts, not on the outside of them: these were either chambers to eat the sacrifices in when boiled; or they were sheds which covered the cooks, and the meat they were boiling, from the rain, &c.: the Targum renders it,
"and walls were made to them round about;''
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to the court: and so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret this row of building of a stone wall:
round about them four; the four courts at the four corners:
and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about; under these rows of building, chambers or sheds; or under these stone walls were furnaces, and coppers, and caldrons, set on them, for the boiling of the sacrifices.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Little. Hebrew, "courts joined;" (Protestants) or marginal note, "made…
Little. Hebrew, "courts joined;" (Protestants) or marginal note, "made with chimneys," (Haydock) or "smoked," as no chimneys were used. Septuagint, "little courts," as they have read differently. (Calmet) --- Vulgate unites both meanings. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain courts joined--FAIRBAIRN translates, "roofed" or "vaulted." But these cooking…
courts joined--FAIRBAIRN translates, "roofed" or "vaulted." But these cooking apartments seem to have been uncovered, to let the smoke and smell of the meat the more easily pass away. They were "joined" or "attached" to the walls of the courts at the corners of the latter [MENOCHIUS].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. courts joined] The term “joined” is obscure, not…
22. courts joined] The term “joined” is obscure, not occurring elsewhere. Possibly: enclosed courts. LXX. appears to have read: small (the words differ in one letter).
these four corners] lit. the four of them had one measure, they being in the corners. The word in the corners, or, cornered, is deleted in the Heb. tradition by points over it, and not rendered in LXX. and Vulg.
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