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
Thou shalt also make an altar of cedar wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare, and its height shall be three cubits.
2 Chronicles 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
The cubit
Ezekiel 40:5
And behold a wall on the outside of the house, and the measuring reed which that man had in his hand, was six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand breadth; so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezekiel 41:8
I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.