1 Kings 6:3

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.

Ver. 3. And the porch before the temple.] At the east end of it: for the most holy place, toward which they prayed, stood westward: that God's people might not be like the heathen, who worshipped toward the east, as Cicero and Vitruvius testify. See Ezekiel 8:16 .

And ten cubits was the breadth thereof.] The height of it far exceeded that of the temple: for it was one hundred and twenty cubits high, 2Ch 3:4 and so was as a tower to the rest of the house.