He made a porch for the throne, even the porch of judgment So it was called, because here he sat to judge and determine the causes that were brought before him. But some think it unlikely that this porch was adjoining to the house of the forest of Lebanon. They judge it more probable that it was built in some place near the royal palace in Jerusalem, and is here mentioned because the writer was speaking of other porches. And it was covered, &c., from one side of the floor to the other
Hebrew, from floor to floor; from the lower floor on the ground, to the upper floor which covered it.