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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Kings 6:3

The porch was thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep. The height is not here given; but in the present text of 2 Chronicles 3:4 (followed by some MSS. of the LXX., and by Josephus) it is made 120 cubits, or 180 feet. This height is hardly in accordance with anything else known on ancient architecture. It is, however, not at all unlike the western tower of a Gothic church.

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָ אוּלָ֗ם עַל ־פְּנֵי֙ הֵיכַ֣ל הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Kings 6:3 vestibule H197 front H6440 sanctuary H1964 house H1004 twenty H6242 cubits H520 long H753 width H7341 house...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Kings 6:1. _In the four hundred and eightieth year._ The Hebrew, the Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some difficulties occur. _Vide Poli in locum._ The following su...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 6:1 With preparation for the temple complete, the text describes the building and its furnishings. This is interrupted in 1 Kings 7:1 by a description of the building of Solomo...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 6:1. BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD—The chronological year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason for cha...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 28:11; 2 Chronicles 3:3; 2 Chronicles 3:4; Acts 3:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The porch — In the front of, or entrance into the house, 2 Chronicles 3:4, being a portico, a walk or gallery, at one end of the building (from side to side.) And the measures of this were harmonious...

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