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He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
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Verse 6. Porch. Septuagint seem to retain the original word ulam, as they read αιλαμ; whence our hall, and the Latin aula, may be derived. Bible.—It was a court surrounded by pillars and galleries, in from of the palace. Calmet.—Another. Hebrew “the porch before them, (pillars) and the pillars, and the thick beam before them.”
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