And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
The porch - or portico, extended across the whole front (see the note at 2 Chronicles 3:4). The design of the porch, which was four times the height of the temple, was chiefly to serve as an ornament to the edifice. The view from its elevated top is said to have been very extensive-to the Mediterranean on one side, and to the Dead Sea on another, up the course of the Jordan, and over Arabia.