Ezekiel 42:8-12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the length of the chambers, &c. The chambers that were built over the cloisters were in length fifty cubits. And lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits In passing from the north to the south side of the temple, Ezekiel 42:11-12, over the space of ground that fronted the east side of it, the prophet was shown that it measured a hundred cubits, Ezekiel 41:14. And from under these chambers was the entry, &c. The entry into these south chambers was by a pair of stairs at the east corner of the outer court: see Ezekiel 46:19. The chambers were in the thickness Or rather, in the breadth of the wall That is, of the ground which that wall enclosed. Over against, or before, the separate place, and before the building These expressions denote that these south chambers had the same situation with respect to the temple, as the north chambers had, spoken of Ezekiel 42:1. And the way before them, &c. Such a way led to these chambers, as did to the chambers on the north side. As long as they, and as broad as they The proportions of both were the same; and the windows, doors, and passages belonging to these, were exactly uniform with those on the north side. The sense of the twelfth verse would be plainer, if the words were thus translated, And such were the doors of the chambers toward the south; namely, as those toward the north. There was a door in the head of the way, &c. Namely, like that described Ezekiel 42:9.