2 Chronicles 3:3

These are the things, etc.] RV 'these are the foundations which Solomon laid': the v. going on to give the ground plan. After the first measure] This implies that the length of the cubit had changed between the time of Solomon and that of the writer of Chronicles. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 40:5) speaks of a cubit measuring a cubit and a hand-breadth, which, if the smaller cubit was equal to 6 hand-breadths (about 18 in.), must have been equivalent to 7 (about 21 in.). In estimating the size of the Temple, the cubit, for the sake of convenience, has been reckoned at 18 in.; if the cubit of 21 in. was the one really employed, the dimensions must be modified accordingly.