| Geneva Study Bible Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first {b} measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. (b) According to the whole length of the temple, Wesley's Notes 3:3 Instructed - By David, and by the Spirit of God. The measure - According to he measure which was first fixed. King James Translators' Notes instructed: Heb. founded Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 2Ch 3:3-7. Measures and Ornaments of the House. 3. these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God-by the written plan and specifications given him by his father. The measurements are reckoned by cubits, "after the first measure," that is, the old Mosaic standard. But there is great difference of opinion about this, some making the cubit eighteen, others twenty-one inches. The temple, which embodied in more solid and durable materials the ground-form of the tabernacle (only being twice as large), was a rectangular building, seventy cubits long from east to west, and twenty cubits wide from north to south. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 3:1-17 The building of the temple. - There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in #1Ki 6". It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit. | 
