Ezekiel 41:9-11

The thickness of the wall, &c. This is supposed to be meant of an outward wall enclosing the side-chambers. And that which was left Or, the space which was left, as Bishop Newcome translates it, judging it to be intended of a space allowed for a walk, or gallery of communication, before the chambers, which space was five cubits broad, Ezekiel 41:11. And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits

A word being here used for chambers different from that which occurs before, it is supposed that another row of buildings, parallel with the side- chambers, but at twenty yards' distance from them, is intended, and that there was a passage of twenty cubits between these buildings. The description, however, is very obscure, and the interpretations of commentators, of course, different. The doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left Or, toward the void space. The doors of the lower rooms opened into this void space before the chambers.