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John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 6:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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In the first year of Cyrus the king; the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, etc.] (see <150101>Ezra 1:1-4 <234428>Isaiah 44:28), the place where they offered sacrifices; to God in times past, ever since it was built by Solomon: and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; so as to bear and support the building erected on them, as the word signifies: the height thereof sixty cubits; which were thirty more than the height of Solomon’s temple, (<110602>1 Kings 6:2) though sixty less than the height of the porch, which was one hundred and twenty, (<140304>2 Chronicles 3:4) and which some take to be the height of the whole house; and hence it may be observed what Herod said f58, that the temple then in being wanted sixty cubits in height of that of Solomon’s: and the breadth thereof sixty cubits; whereas the breadth of Solomon’s temple was but twenty, (<110602>1 Kings 6:2), but since it cannot reasonably be thought that the breadth should be equal to the height, and so very disproportionate to Solomon’s temple; many learned men understand this of the extension of it as to length, which exactly agrees with the length of the former temple, (<110602>1 Kings 6:2).
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