Then came he to the gate which looketh toward the east] Heb. whose face was the way toward the east. By the staires of the mountaine of the Temple he cometh to the East gate of the outmost wall: and the rising up to it is seven steps: as vers 22. 24. and measured the threshold of the gate] The threshold or floore of the gate consisted of two halfe paces one rising a step above another, and either of them was in breadth a reed long, or sixe yards and an halfe: so that the ascending was thus: First, they rose the mountaine with steps into this gate, then stepped they up into the threshold, or entrance of the gate and walked on sixe yards and an halfe, and then they stepped up an other threshold, and walked on sixe yards and an halfe upon that also; and this is that which is meant, vers. 11. where it is said, that the length of the gate was thirteene cubits.