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
Build the altar with acacia wood. It should be seven and one half feet square and four and one half feet tall.
2 Chronicles 4:1
King Solomon had a copper altar built. It was thirty feet square and fifteen feet high.
The cubit
Ezekiel 40:5
I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple. The man had a measuring stick that was ten and one half feet long. He measured the wall. It was ten and one half feet thick and ten and one half feet high.
Ezekiel 41:8
I also saw a raised base all around the Temple. This base was the foundation for the side rooms. It measured the full length of the measuring rod, ten and one half feet.