Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.
Public worship in God's courts will never excuse us from the closet; we must read, meditate, and pray in secret before and after. These many chambers teach us that there is room in His house for all devout souls, yet we must prefer the public gates of Zion before all the dwellings of Jacob.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 42:1-14
Below these chambers lay a void space on the east side, and anyone entering them from the outer court had to pass through it. Whether you read this as an entrance or as the guide himself leading eastward, the point is clear: the lowest chambers had this eastern passage beneath them, connecting the outer court to the inner chambers.
AI summary
Eze 42:1-14 Eze 42:1. And he brought me out into the outer court by the way toward the north, and brought me to the cell-building, which was opposite to the separate place, and opposite to the building toward the north, Eze 42:2. Before the long side of a hundred cubits, with the door toward the north, and the breadth fifty cubits, Eze 42:3.
Commenting on Ezekiel 42:1-14