Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 40:10
And the little chambers of the gate eastward [were] three on this side, and three on that side; they three [were] of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
10. The measurer, having passed through the whole length of the gateway E. to W., and named each particular thing on one side of it, viz. threshold ( Eze 40:6), guardroom ( Eze 40:7), wall space between guardrooms ( Eze 40:7), inner threshold to porch ( Eze 40:7), porch and its posts ( Eze 40:8-9), with their dimensions, now states that there were three guardrooms on each side, all of the same size, and also some other points. For little chambers, guardrooms.
the posts had one measure ] Probably the “posts” here are not the jambs of the door of the porch ( Eze 40:9), but the wall-fronts or spaces between the guardrooms ( Eze 40:7), Fig, 1, gh, ik. There were two of these on each side of the passage, each measuring five cubits.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This is a repetition of what the 7th verse hath already acquainted us with; I only observe, these chambers were for the priests and Levites to lodge in during their ministration, according to their courses in the temple, where they kept watch continually night and day. The whole was framed in very great harmony and just proportions.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the little chambers of the gate eastward,…. Where the man now was, and was measuring; and the like chambers there were in the other gates, and of the same measure; of which chambers
[See comments on Eze 40:7]:
were three on this side, and three on that side; three on the right side of the porch to the north, and three on the left side of it to the south:
they three were of one measure; one reed, or three yards and a half square, as in Eze 40:7
and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side; on the right and left, north and south of the inward gate of the porch, which measure was two cubits, Eze 40:9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 40:10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward [were] three on this side, and three on that side; they three [were] of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
Ver. 10. And the little chambers. ] Here lay the doorkeepers, whose office was to keep out the unclean. 2Ch 23:19 Oh for such officers among us!
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the little: Eze 40:7
they three: The entrance into the outer court seems to have been through a porch with doors at both ends; and on each side of this porch were three small chambers, or rooms, for the use of the porters, a reed square in size, with a passage of five cubits between them. The common cubit, termed the “cubit of a man,” – Deu 3:11, was about 18 inches; but the cubit used by the angel was, as we learn from Eze 43:13, “a cubit and a hand breadth,” or about three inches more than the common cubit, that is 21 inches. Hence the measuring reed, which was “six cubits long, by the cubit and the hand breadth,” – Eze 40:5, must have been about 10+ feet
Reciprocal: Eze 40:21 – the little Eze 40:29 – the little Eze 40:44 – chambers
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 40:10. In giving the measurements of different parts of the structure the idea of unity will be frequently noticed, which is the case in the present verse as we see the term one measure is used twice.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
There was a total of six guardrooms in the gate complex, three on each side of the main hallway, and they were all the same size.