And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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Barnes' Notes
The height was an hundred and twenty cubits - This height, which so much exceeds that of the main building 1Ki 6:2, is probably to be corrected by the reading of the Arabic Version and the Alexandrian…
Adam Clarke
The height was a hundred and twenty - Some think this should be twenty only; but if the same building is spoken of as in Kg1 6:2, the height was only thirty cubits. Twenty is the reading of the…
Here is, I. The place where the temple was built. Solomon was neither at liberty to choose nor at a loss to fix the place. It was before determined (Ch1 22:1), which was an ease to his mind. 1. It…
Cambridge Bible
4 (1Ki 6:3). The Porch
4. And the porch thatwas in the frontof the house] The Hebrew text is faulty, but the sense is probably correctly given in A.V.
the lengthof it was according to the breadth of…