Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
From describing the gates, courts, tables or altars, and courts and porch, he passes on to describe the temple itself.
Which was the breadth of the tabernacle. As in the measurement of the outer porch he had pointed to Solomon's temple, so here, in the edifice itself, he points to the old tabernacle, which, being eight beards in breadth (each one and a half cubit broad), would make in all twelve cubits, as here. Internally it was only ten cubits.