1 Kings 7:5

And he made a porch of pillars,.... At the west end of the house:

and the length thereof was fifty cubits; answerable to the breadth of the house:

and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: which,…

All the doors and posts - The doorways, and the posts which formed them, seem to be intended. These were square at top, not arched or rounded. In Assyrian buildings arched doorways were not uncommon.…

Never had any man so much of the spirit of building as Solomon had, nor to better purpose; he began with the temple, built for God first, and then all his other buildings were comfortable. The surest…

And all the doors and postswere square, with the windows It is not easy to say how the last word of the Hebrew should be rendered. It is akin to that rendered -windows" by the A.V. in 1Ki 7:4. Hence a…