Ezekiel 40:9

9 It extended 14 feet from the temple. Its recessed walls were 3½ feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the temple.

Ezekiel 40:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 40:9

Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits
This could not be the length of the porch from gate to gate, or from east to west, as Lipman ^F26; since there were five cubits between every little chamber; but the breadth of it from north to south, and was four yards and two feet over: and the posts thereof two cubits;
these were columns or pillars placed on each side of the porch, or at the portal of the gate, of two cubits, or a yard and half a foot thick; which, added to the other eight cubits, made the entrance ten cubits, as in ( Ezekiel 40:11 ) what these posts, pillars, or columns signify, see on ( Ezekiel 40:14 Ezekiel 40:16 ) : and the porch of the gate was inward;
this was the porch of the inward gate; or this was the measure of the porch within the gate.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Ibid. (Lipman. Tzaurath Beth Hamikdash), sect. 6.

Ezekiel 40:9 In-Context

7 There were also guardrooms. Each guardroom was 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide. The space between the guardrooms was 9 feet thick. And the entrance to the gateway by the entrance hall of the temple was 10½ feet wide.

8 He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway.

9 It extended 14 feet from the temple. Its recessed walls were 3½ feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the temple.

10 Now, there were three guardrooms on each side of the eastern gateway. All three rooms on each side were the same size, and the recessed walls on each side were the same size.

11 Then the man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway. It was 17½ feet wide, and the gateway was 23 feet long.