Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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2 Chronicles 3:4
The height was a hundred and twenty - Some think this should be twenty only; but if the same building is spoken of as in I Kings 6:2, the height was only thirty cubits. Twenty is the reading of the Syriac, the Arabic, and the Septuagint in the Codex Alexandrinus. The MSS. give us no help. There is probably a mistake here, which, from the similarity of the letters, might easily occur. The words, as they now stand in the Hebrew text, are meah veesrim , one hundred and twenty. But probably the letters in meah , a hundred, are transposed for ammah , a cubit, if, therefore, the aleph be placed after the mem , then the word will be meah one hundred; if before it the word will be ammah , a cubit; therefore ammah esrim will be twenty cubits; and thus the Syriac, Arabic, and Septuagint appear to have read. This will bring it within the proportion of the other measures, but a hundred and twenty seems too great a height.
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