- 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. "And the porchª beforeª¹ the templeª of the house,ª twentyª cubitsª [was] the lengthª thereof, according¹¹ to the breadthª of the house;ª [and] tenª cubitsª [was] the breadthª thereof before¹¹ the house.ª" {1Kg 6:3} + "And the porchª that¹ [was] in¹ the frontª [of the house], the lengthª [of it was] according to¹¹ the breadthª of the house,ª twentyª cubits,ª and the heightª [was] an hundredª and twenty:ª and he overlaidª° it withinª¹ with pureª gold.ª" {2Ch 3:4}
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