The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.
Diligence in the plainer parts of Scripture leads to the mysteries of the kingdom. Those willing to dwell in God's courts shall be brought into His temple; Ezekiel, a priest barred from serving, is dignified above his order by this prophetical vision of Christ's body, the church, where all are living temples.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 41:1-11
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers without, was five cubits,.... This is the outward wall of the chambers, north and south, which was five cubits thick, made of stone; See Gill on Eze 41:5, and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within; this was a void space, not built upon, which was before...
that which was left--There was an unoccupied place within chambers that belonged to the house. The buildings in this unoccupied place, west of the temple, and so much resembling it in size, imply that no place was to be left which was to be held, as of old, not sacred. Manasseh (Kg2 23:11) had abused these "suburbs of the temple" to keeping horses sacred to the sun.