Ezekiel 40:19

“Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the outside of the inner court, a hundred cubits both on the east and on the north.”

Thus the outer court was one hundred cubits, from the inmost part of the gateway to the inner court, all round on three sides.

The Measurement of the North and South Gates (Ezekiel 40:20).

These two gates were an identical reproduction of the east gate, the ‘three' gates representing ‘complete' access. This time the number of steps leading up to them is given. It is seven, the number of divine perfection. The temple was raised above the earth by a divinely perfect amount, and accessed in a divinely perfect way. The number seven had huge significance to the ancients throughout the Ancient Near East. It was the ‘perfect' number and often indicated divine activity and perfection.