1 Kings 7:6

6 He built a colonnaded courtyard seventy-five feet long and forty-five wide. It had a roofed porch at the front with ample eaves.

1 Kings 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:6

And he made a porch of pillars
At the west end of the house:

and the length thereof was fifty cubits;
answerable to the breadth of the house:

and the breadth thereof thirty cubits:
which, added to the length of the house, made it one hundred and thirty:

and the porch was before them;
the four rows of cedar pillars of the house, ( 1 Kings 7:2 ) this porch was either for his guards to keep watch in; or for his courtiers to walk in, sheltered from rain or the like; or perhaps only for grandeur and magnificence:

and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them;
the pillars of the porch, on which were laid beams of cedar for a storey over them, and so on; these were before and right against, and answered to the pillars of the house.

1 Kings 7:6 In-Context

4 Windows in groupings of three were set high in the walls on either side.

5 All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.

6 He built a colonnaded courtyard seventy-five feet long and forty-five wide. It had a roofed porch at the front with ample eaves.

7 He built a court room, the Hall of Justice, where he would decide judicial matters, and paneled it with cedar.

8 He built his personal residence behind the Hall on a similar plan. Solomon also built another one just like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.