4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits
4 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house,
4 The porch in front stretched the width of the building, that is, thirty feet; and it was thirty feet high.
4 And the vestibule that was in front of the sanctuary was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
4 The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30Â feet wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30Â feet high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3:4
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The building of the temple.
There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1 Kings 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.