Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

Sum of the measures of the temple, and of the buildings behind and on the side of it

Verse 15. The galleries - terrace buildings. On the west or back of the temple there was a separate place occupied by buildings of the same external dimensions as the temple - i:e., one hundred cubits square in the entire compass (Fairbairn).

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