Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
The measures
The cubit
Bible References
The measures
Exodus 27:1
"You are to make the altar of acacia wood. It is to be five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar is to be a square, and it is to be three cubits high.
2 Chronicles 4:1
Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
The cubit
Ezekiel 40:5
All of a sudden, we were at the exterior wall that completely surrounded the Temple. The man whom I had observed held a measuring reed that was six cubits long as measured in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long. As he measured the thickness of the wall, he measured out one reed. Its height was also one reed.
Ezekiel 41:8
I observed a raised platform that surrounded the Temple, and the foundations of the side chambers were a full six cubits deep.