And he measured the porch, &c.] The porch before the Temple was twentie cubits long, and eleven cubits broad: Now the standing of it was that the length of it stood crossing to the house, and was just as long as the house was broad: so that to passe through the porch into the house, you passed the breadth of it and not the length. Now as you go up to the front of it, it stood facing of you in this manner. In the middle of the length of it, was the doore of foure cubits broad, on either side of the doore was a gate or leaves of a gate to open when occasion was, three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side, and on either side of these leaves were cloysters of five cubits long, and so was the whole length or front of the porch taken up. And at the point of these cloysters toward the entrance stood two pillars, as Jachin and Boaz in the Temple of Solomon, 1 Kings 7:21.