In the face of the north door was the length of a hundred cubits, and the breadth of fifty cubits.

before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,

At the front of the length is a hundred cubits at the north opening, and the breadth fifty cubits.

On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,

even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,

The length of the face of the north gate was one hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.

He brought me "before" a row of chambers 100 cubits long, east and west. "The door" of which lay on the north side of the chambers. The priests entered from the outer court (O); the breadth of this block of chambers was fifty cubits, north and south Ezekiel 42:8.

Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door,.... That is, the north door of the house opened to a space that lay between that and the chambers, which was a hundred cubits long:
and the breadth was fifty cubits; or the sense is, that the prophet was brought, as Noldius renders the words (t),
to a place whose length was an hundred cubits towards the north door; so that they describe the length and breadth of these chambers, the whole of them; and to this agrees the Arabic version: this account of them makes them larger than Solomon's temple, 1-Kings 6:2, which may signify the largeness of these churches; the number of men in them; and the abundance of spiritual blessings and privileges, of light and knowledge, peace and joy, possessed by them: but the measure being oblong, and not foursquare, as the city of the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:16, shows they are not yet come to stability and perfection.
(t) Concord. Ebr. Partic. p. 82.

CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS: MEASUREMENTS OF THE TEMPLE. (Ezekiel. 42:1-20)
Before the length of an hundred cubits--that is before "the separate place," which was that length (Ezekiel 41:13). He had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner court (Ezekiel 40:44-46). He now returns to take a more exact view of them.

The length - The temple of one hundred cubits long, and of fifty broad, was on the south prospect of these chambers.