And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
Ver. 2. And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord.] For his settled habitation among the children of Israel. And forasmuch as the Lord their God was above all gods, 2Ch 2:5 a great God, a mighty and a terrible, Deu 10:17 therefore Solomon set up this most glorious and sumptuous edifice that ever was in the world, in honour of the divine Majesty, and for a type of Christ, "in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Col 2:9
The length thereof was threescore cubits.] Twice so long and large every way as was the tabernacle; Exo 26:1-37 as the temple in Ezekiel, Eze 40:41-49 setting forth gospel times, is described as much bigger than all the old Jerusalem: and a new Jerusalem bigger than all the land of Canaan.