The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits, even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 49. Eleven. 3 Kennicott. 6 says ten. The exact breadth was ten and a half, (Vill. Tirinus.) or what the pavement covered is there specified according to some. Septuagint Rom. has “twelve.” But the edition of Basil reads more correctly, ten. Calmet.—Yet both ten and eleven may be right, if this temple be different. Bible.—Eight. Hebrew seems corrupt, a being substituted for á. “They mounted by ten steps,” as the Septuagint read. Aquila has eleven; Sym. eight.—Pillars of brass. 3 Kennicott. 7:15. Calmet.—As they are not measured, they were like Solomon’s. Worthington.