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Ezekiel 42 — Sermon Preparation
The priestly chambers for eating holy offerings and the dimensions of the outer wall enclosing the entire temple complex are measured. Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 42, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Ezekiel 42 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לִשְׁכָּה | lishkâh | H3957 | 13 | room |
| דֶּרֶךְ | derek | H1870 | 13 | road, trodden |
| קָנֶה | qâneh | H7070 | 9 | reed, erect |
| חָצֵר | châtsêr | H2691 | 9 | yard, hamlet |
| חִיצוֹן | chîytsôwn | H2435 | 6 | wall side, exterior |
| אַמָּה | ʼammâh | H520 | 8 | a mother, a cubit |
| צָפוֹן | tsâphôwn | H6828 | 7 | hidden, dark |
How preachers through history handled this text
2 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 42, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This chapter continues and concludes the describing and measuring of this mystical temple, which it is very hard to understand the particular architecture of, and yet more hard to comprehend the mystical meaning of. Here is, I. A description of the chambers that were about the courts, their situation and structure (ver. 1-13), and the uses for which they were designed, ver. 13, 14. II. A survey of the whole compass of ground which was taken up with the house, and the courts belonging to it, ver. 15-20. The Vision of the Temple. (b. c. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 4 (Isaiah to Malachi), on Ezekiel 42:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Holy Place 2— Ezek 42:14
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