Now the building &c.— The word בנין binian, translated building, signifies a wall or inclosure, which ran along the outside of the priests' court, commensurate with the breadth of the western side of the temple, which was seventy cubits from north to south; and extended in length from east to west ninety cubits; ten cubits shorter than the whole area itself, and inclosing a void space of five cubits breadth, which lay between the side chambers and the inclosure; which area and void space may be understood by the separate place in this verse, and the place which was left, or the intermediate place, Ezekiel 41:11. Houbigant renders the beginning of the present verse, And the edifice which was in the front of the separate area, to the western side, was, &c. See Lowth, and Lamy's Apparatus Biblicus.
Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 41:12
Ezekiel 41:12
12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.