47So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
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And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-49)In these verses we have an account, I. Of the tables that were in the porch of the gates of the inner court. We find no description of the altars of burnt-offerings in the midst of that court till Ezek. 43:18. But, because the one altar under the law was to be exchanged for a multitude of tables under the gospel, here is early notice taken of the tables, at our entrance into the inner court; for t…
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