Ezekiel 42:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Ezekiel 42:5 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the upper chambers <FI>are<Fi> short, for the galleries contain more than these, than the lower, and than the middle one, of the building;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 42:5 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 41:7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).