Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 42:2

"Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits." — Ezekiel 42:2 (ASV)

Before the length.— This verse is still a part of the same sentence, and means, “he brought me before the long side of 100 cubits with the door toward the north, and the breadth 50 cubits.” The entrance being on the north was necessarily in the outer court, and the whole description requires that the long way of the building should be east and west. The width therefore of 50 cubits projected into the court just as far as the gateways of the inner court. The measurements of this “chamber” are external, since the prophet did not enter it.