Verse 3
In the first year of Cyrus the king; the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded ,.... See Ezra 1:1 ,
the place where they offered sacrifices ; to God in times past, ever since it was built by Solomon:
and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid ; so as to bear and support the building erected on them, as the word signifies:
the height thereof sixty cubits ; which were thirty more than the height of Solomon's temple, 1 Kings 6:2 though sixty less than the height of the porch, which was one hundred and twenty, 2 Chronicles 3:4 and which some take to be the height of the whole house; and hence it may be observed what Herod said F25 Apud Joseph. Antiqu. l. 15. c. 11. sect. 1. , that the temple then in being wanted sixty cubits in height of that of Solomon's:
and the breadth thereof sixty cubits ; whereas the breadth of Solomon's temple was but twenty, 1 Kings 6:2 , but since it cannot reasonably be thought that the breadth should be equal to the height, and so very disproportionate to Solomon's temple; many learned men understand this of the extension of it as to length, which exactly agrees with the length of the former temple, 1 Kings 6:2 .
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