Before the length of an hundred cubits, &c.] This is to be understood on the North side of these buildings Northward, and that as there was a space between them and the Temple inward, which was an hundred cubits long, and twenty broad, so was there a like space betwixt them and the North wall of the inner Court an hundred cubits long, and fifty broad: And the doore that went into the buildings, was not on their South side toward the Temple, but on the North side of them toward the Court wall.