Ezekiel 42
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Lutheran reading notes
In Ezekiel chapter 42, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of divine judgment, prophetic visions, and restoration of Israel. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Ezekiel 42:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Before the length of an hundred cubits {was} the north door, and the breadth {was} fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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 42:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Ezekiel 42:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the wall that {was} without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof {was} fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the length of the chambers that {were} in the utter court {was} fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple {were} an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 42:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And from under these chambers {was} the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. {from under: or, from the place} {the entry: or, he that brought me} {as...: or, as he came}
Ezekiel 42:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The chambers {were} in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.
Ezekiel 42:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the way before them {was} like the appearance of the chambers which {were} toward the north, as long as they, {and} as broad as they: and all their goings out {were} both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
Ezekiel 42:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And according to the doors of the chambers that {were} toward the south {was} a door in the head of the way, {even} the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Ezekiel 42:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then said he unto me, The north chambers {and} the south chambers, which {are} before the separate place, they {be} holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place {is} holy.
Ezekiel 42:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy {place} into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they {are} holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to {those things} which {are} for the people.
Ezekiel 42:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect {is} toward the east, and measured it round about.
Ezekiel 42:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. {side: Heb. wind}
Ezekiel 42:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel 42:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He turned about to the west side, {and} measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred {reeds} long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
Ezekiel 42:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.