1Ki 6:3, 2Ch 3:4, Eze 40:8-9, 15, 48-49 | TSK

1 Kings 6:3

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

2 Chronicles 3:4

the porch.

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 40:8-9

the posts.

45:19

Ezekiel 40:15

the face of the gate.This was the whole length of the porch, from the outward front, (ch. 41:21, 25,) to the inner side which looks into the first court, (ver. 17,) including the thickness of the walls, (ver. 6,) chambers, (ver. 7,) and spaces between them.

Ezekiel 40:48-49

the porch.The length of the porch was twenty cubits, the same as the breadth of the temple, and the breadth eleven cubits, that is, one cubit more than in Solomon's temple. Two bivalve, or folding doors, each leaf of them being three cubits wide, seem to have formed the entrance; which, with five cubits, perhaps of brick or stone work, one each side, called "the post of the porch," amount to sixteen cubits; and the other four cubits may be supposed to have been the distance from these posts to the outside walls of the temple.

1Ki 6:3; 2Ch 3:4

The steps.This was a flight of steps which led from the inner court into the temple.

31,34,37

pillars.

1Ki 7:15-21; 2Ch 3:17; Jer 52:17-23; Re 3:12