The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits. That which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. House. Because these side-chambers were in the very walls of the temple all around: or it may also be rendered, (more agreeably to the Heb.) so as to signify, that the thickness of the wall for the side-chambers within was the same as that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits. Challoner.—Prot. “and that which was left, was the place of the side-chambers that were within.” Bible.—To manifest a greater respect for God, the apartments of the priests were twenty-five cubits from the temple, (verse 10) and divided by a wall, which Josephus describes as three cubits high. Ant. viii. 2. This wall was at the distance of five cubits from the temple. Calmet.