the arches These are supposed to have been built over the spaces which separated the little chambers, or porters' lodges.
five and
Ezekiel 40:21,25,29,33,36 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side...
five cubits Instead of five cubits, it seems evident, from the parallel places, that we should read twenty-five; the word esrim appears to have been lost out of the text.
broad [heb] breadth