1Ki 6:2-3, 2Ch 3:3-4, Eze 41:13-15, Rev 21:16 | TSK | STEP | the house. the 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.

1 Kings 6:2-3

the house.

the 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 21:16,17

1Ch 28:11; 2Ch 3:3,4; Eze 41:15; Mt 4:5; Joh 10:23; Ac 3:10,11

2 Chronicles 3:3-4

A.M. 2993-3000. B.C. 1011-1004. Solomon.

1Ch 28:11-19

instructed. Heb. founded. The length.

1Ki 6:2,3

the first measure.It is supposed, with much probability, that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity: and, as these Books were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses; which may serve to reconcile some variations in the historical books, with respect to numbers when applied to measures.

the porch.

Joh 10:23; Ac 3:11; 5:12

an 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.

Ezekiel 41:13-15

he measured.These verses (13-15) seem to intimate, that all the buildings of the temple occupied an area of 100 square cubits.

galleries. or, several walks, or walks with pillars.

42:3; So 1:17; 7:5; Zec 3:7

with the.

17; 42:15

Revelation of John 21:16

four square.The square form of this city probably denotes its stability; while its vast dimensions, being 1,500 miles on each side, are emblematical of magnificence, and of its capability of containing all the multitude of inhabitants which should ever enter it, however immense or innumerable.

Eze 48:17,18,20,35

twelve.

Eze 48:8-19