The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
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The Porch of the House. The front of the temple-porch (see G, Plan I) consisted of a central opening with two columns on either side. Two columns with the space between them were called “a post of the…
Adam Clarke
By the steps - This was a flight of steps that led to the temple; there were eight steps in each flight. See YY in the plan.
We have here a very short and ready way taken for the dividing of the land among the twelve tribes, not so tedious and so far about as the way that was taken in Joshua's time; for in the distribution…
Cambridge Bible
Here "length" is the larger dimension N. to S. (1Ki 6:3), Fig. 2, hh; and breadth the smaller E. to W.; Fig. 2, bc.
breadth eleven cubits twelve cubits, as LXX. The number eleven cannot be reconciled…
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