ABSTRACT
The Israelites might have received some knowledge of Architecture from Egypt, yet when Solomon was about to build the Temple, the workmen of his own kingdom were not sufficient for the task. The sacred historians mention several other buildings with which Solomon adorned Jerusalem, but so concisely, that we can form no accurate conceptions of them. The Temple, repaired and beautified by Herod, is the one so often mentioned in the New Testament, and was exceedingly magnificent. The gates and porches were lofty and richly ornamented with gold and Corinthian brass. The part of the Temple called the sanctuary, was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits broad, and thirty high, with the exception of the part called the Sanctissimum, or Most Holy, the height of which was only twenty cubits, so that there remained over it a room of ten cubits in height.
