By the cubit, and an hand-breadth— Each cubit containing a cubit and an hand-breadth, called the great cubit, chap. Ezekiel 41:8 and supposed equal to half a yard. According to Michaelis, the Hebrew measures are: 1. The finger's breadth. 2. Four fingers, or hand-breadth. 3. Ell; the smaller of five hand-breadths, the larger of six. 4. Rod, of six ells. He also allows the Rabbinical account, that a finger is equal to the length of six barley grains. See chap. Ezekiel 43:13.
Of the building— Of the outer wall, which was three yards high and three yards broad. This wall surrounded a part which corresponded to the court of the Gentiles, and served as a security against the precipices of the mount on which the temple stood.