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The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].
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An Ingenious Design
Commentators explain the clever architecture of the temple's side chambers. The main temple wall was built with ledges, becoming thinner with each story. This allowed the chambers on the higher floors to be wider than those below, creating more space as one ascended.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 41:7
18th Century
Theologian
An enlarging - The “wall for the side-chambers” had for the ground story its full thickness of five cubits (Ezekiel 41:9) - then…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 41:7
19th Century
Bishop
And there was an enlarging.— The description in this verse is difficult to understand and has prompted a wide variety of opinions.…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 41:7
17th Century
Pastor
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to
the side chambers
The…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 41:1–26
17th Century
Minister
After the prophet had observed the courts, he was brought to the temple. If we attend to instructions in the plainer parts of religion, and profit …