Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 40:39-40
Ezekiel 40:39-40. In the porch of the gate were two tables, &c. Those expositors who, by the word gates, in Ezekiel 40:38, understand both the north and south gates, render the sense of these two verses perspicuously thus: In the porch of one gate (namely, that on the south) were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, &c. And at the outer side of the step of the entry of the north gate were two tables; which interpretation agrees very well with what follows,... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 40:40
On either side of the entrance of the north gate (from the inner court), were two tables on the one side and two tables on the other side of the porch. read more