John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 6:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, etc.] For his worship, honour, and glory: the length thereof [was] threescore cubits; sixty cubits from east to west, including the holy place and the most holy place; the holy place was forty cubits, and the most holy place twenty; the same measure, as to length, Eupolemus, an Heathen writer f89, gives of the temple, but is mistaken in the other measures: and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits]; from north to south: and the height thereof thirty cubits; this must be understood of the holy place, for the oracle or most holy place was but twenty cubits high, (<110620>1 Kings 6:20); though the holy place, with the chambers that were over it, which were ninety cubits, three stories high, was in all an hundred twenty cubits, (<140304>2 Chronicles 3:4); some restrain it to the porch only, which stood at the end, like one of our high steeples, as they think.

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