Ezekiel 41:9
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New International Version (©2011)
The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick. The open area between the side rooms of the temple

New Living Translation (©2007)
The outer wall of the Temple's side rooms was 8-3/4 feet thick. This left an open area between these side rooms

English Standard Version (©2001)
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8 3/4 feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple

International Standard Version (©2012)
The outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits thick, and there was an empty space between the Temple's side chambers

NET Bible (©2006)
The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, and the open area between the side chambers of the temple

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The outer wall of the side rooms was 9 feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms connected to the temple

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were inside.

American King James Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

American Standard Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the thickness of the wall for the side chamber without, which was five cubits: and the inner house was within the side chambers of the house.

Darby Bible Translation
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.

English Revised Version
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.

Webster's Bible Translation
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that were within.

World English Bible
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

Young's Literal Translation
The breadth of the wall that is to the side-chamber at the outside is five cubits; and that which is left is the place of the side-chambers that are to the house.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-26 After the prophet had observed the courts, he was brought to the temple. If we attend to instructions in the plainer parts of religion, and profit by them, we shall be led further into an acquaintance with the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chambers on the outside, is next mentioned as having been five cubits, i.e. the same as the breadth of the wall of the porch (Ezekiel 40:48), but one cubit thinner than that of the temple (ver. 5). The clause which follows is obscure. By that which was left, the Authorized and Revised Versions understand the place of the side chambers that were within - or, that belonged to the house (Revised Version) - without intending to assert that the whole space left, which was five cubits (ver. 11), was occupied by the side chambers, which were only four cubits broad (ver. 5). Accepting these measurements, Kliefoth and Keil regard the free space as a walk of five cubits broad on the outside of the side chambers. Ewald, and Dr. Currey, in the 'Speaker's Commentary,' place the five cubits between the temple wall and the side chambers.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. that which was left—There was an unoccupied place within chambers that belonged to the house. The buildings in this unoccupied place, west of the temple, and so much resembling it in size, imply that no place was to be left which was to be held, as of old, not sacred. Manasseh (2Ki 23:11) had abused these "suburbs of the temple" to keeping horses sacred to the sun. All excuse for such abominations was henceforth to be taken away, the Lord claiming every space, and filling up this also with sacred erections [Fairbairn].

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The Inner Temple
…8I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. 10And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. …

Ezekiel 41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was six cubits thick, and each side room around the temple was four cubits wide.
Ezekiel 41:11 There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.