'Older' in the Bible

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.