Ezekiel 41:9

9 The thickness of the outside wall of the chambers was five cubits; and the space that was left of the chambers that were within.

Ezekiel 41:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 41:9

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 Ezekiel 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 the chambers that stood within it; and was a space to walk in for those that dwelt in the chambers, or to go in from chamber to chamber; which also was five cubits in breadth, as appears from the next verse. This may denote the communion of churches, and the members of them one with another.

Ezekiel 41:9 In-Context

7 And there was an enlarging and a winding about in the chambers to the highest part; for the winding about of the house went very high round about inside the house; therefore the house had greater breadth upward, and from the lowest chamber it rose to the highest by the one in the middle.

8 I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the outside wall of the chambers was five cubits; and the space that was left of the chambers that were within.

10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

11 And the door of each chamber was toward the space that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth of the space that was left was five cubits round about.