Ezekiel 40:9

9 It was 14 feet wide. Each of its doorposts was three and a half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the front of 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 The rooms where the guards stood were one rod long and one rod wide. The walls between the rooms were almost nine feet thick. The gateway next to the porch was one rod wide. The porch faced the front of the temple.

8 Then the man measured the porch of the gateway.

9 It was 14 feet wide. Each of its doorposts was three and a half feet thick. The porch of the gateway faced the front of the temple.

10 Inside the east gate were three rooms on each side. All of the rooms were the same size. The walls on each side of the rooms had the same thickness.

11 Then the man measured the entrance of the gateway. It was 17 and a half feet wide and almost 23 feet long.