8For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
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So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)The prophet has taken a very exact view of the temple and the buildings belonging to it, and is now brought again into the outer court, to observe the chambers that were in that square. I. Here is a description of these chambers, which (as that which went before) seems to us very perplexed and intricate, through our unacquaintedness with the Hebrew language and the rules of architecture at that ti…
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