1 Kings 6:2
the house.Eze 40:1-41:26the length.According to Bp. Cumberland's estimation of the cubit, its length was 36 yds. 1 ft. 5/28 inch; its breadth 12 yds. 5/76 inch; and its height, 18 yds. 8/64 inch. This constituted what is properly called the temple; but, besides this, there were the courts and colonnades, where the people might assemble to perform their devotions, without being exposed to the open air. threescore.Ezr 6:3,4; Eze 41:1-15; Re 21:16,171 Kings 9:8
at.2Ch 7:21; Isa 64:11; Jer 19:8; 49:17; 50:13; Da 9:12Why.De 29:24-26; Jer 22:8,9,282 Chronicles 3:4
the porch.Joh 10:23; Ac 3:11; 5:12an hundred and twenty.As the height of the temple was only thirty cubits, 120 seems too great a height for the porch; but the Syriac, Arabic, and the LXX. in the codex Alexandrinus, have only twenty, probably reading, instead of {maiah weesrim,} "one hundred and twenty," {ammoth esrim,} "twenty cubits;" which brings it within the proportion of the other measures.
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