Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 41:5

5 After he measured the wall of the house , six cubits ; and the breadth of every side chamber , four cubits, round about the house on every side .

Having left the Holy of Holies measured in the 3d. verse now he is come to take the measures of the outer Wall.

The Temple it self.

Three yards thick was this Wall from the ground to the first story of the side chambers.

Of the lowest floor; for there were three stories of these, and they differ'd in their breadth, as the Wall of the Temple, on which they rested abated of its thickness; for the middle Chambers were broader than the lowest by a Cubit, and highest as much broader than the middle.

On the North, South and West parts.

On each side of every one of these three gates. The East-gate, and buildings about that were not faced with such [illegible: 2 letters]cings.