Ezekiel 42:10

thickness of the wall Probably: at the beginning(or, head) of the wall(cf. Ezekiel 42:12). The "wall" is that piece of wall referred to Ezekiel 42:7, and the "beginning of it" is the point where the way enters from the outer court, Fig. 3, P. In Ezekiel 46:19 this is stated to have been at the shoulder (the long side) of the N. gate. It is said that the doors into the chambers were from the "walk" of 100 cubits long fronting the longer wing (Fig. 3, O), and possibly also that this walk led into the inner court (Ezekiel 42:4), consequently the entrance-way from the outer court must have lain as far east as the end of this "walk," which it led to and so reached the chambers. The area of 100 × 50 on which the cells stood, though not wholly covered by the cells, must have been in some way marked off from the general level of the court, and the entrance-way from the outer court was on the east front of it; and it was probably in this entrance-way that the prophet had his position (Ezekiel 42:1), Fig. 3. Q.

For "east" must be read south, according to Ezekiel 42:12 and the whole scope; cf. Ezek. 44:44. The "building" as in Ezekiel 42:1 is the wall of the outer court with its stories of cells, Fig. 3, B, C. On the one side the chambers faced the separate place, and on the other side the shorter wing looked towards the buildings in the outer court.