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CHAPTER XLII
This chapter gives us a description of the priests' chambers and their use, with the dimensions of the holy mount on which the temple stood, 1-20.
NOTES ON CHAP. XLII
Verse 1. "He brought me forth into the utter court" - He brought him out from the temple into the court of the priests. This, in reference to the temple, was called the outer court; but the court of the people was beyond this.
Verse 4. "A walk of ten cubits' breadth inward" - This seems to have been a sort of parapet.
Verse 14. "They shall lay their garments wherein they minister" - The priests were not permitted to wear their roles in the outer court. These vestments were to be used only when they mintstered; and when thev had done, they were to deposit them in one of the chambers mentioned in the thirteenth verse.
"Verses 16-19. He measured the east-north-south-west side" - Each of which was five hundred reeds: and, as the building was square, the area must have been nearly thirteen thousand paces. No wonder this was called a city. See chap. xl. 2.