In _Moses_ his _Tabernacle_ there was but one _Table_, and one _Candlestick_: In _Solomon_’s _Temple_ there were ten _Tables_, and ten _Candlesticks_; as likewise in the _Court_ of the _Tabernacle_, there was but one brazen Laver, in the _Court_ of the _Temple_ there were ten, and another great Vessel wherein the _Priests_ washed: in the _Tabernacle_ there were but _two silver Trumpets_; in the _Temple_ there were an _hundred and twenty Priests sounding Trumpets_.
The _Courts_ of the _Temple_ at the first were but two, _Atrium Sacerdotum_, the _Priests Court_; and _Atrium populi_, the _Peoples Court_.
In the _Priests Court_ were the brazen Altar for Sacrifices, and the Laver for the washing, both of the _Priests_ and the _Sacrifices_. The _Laver_, and the _Altar_ scituated in the same Court, signified the same as the _water_ and _blood_ issued out of _Christ_’s side; namely, the necessary concurrence of these two Graces in all that shall be saved, _sanctification_, _justification_; _sanctification_ intimated by the _Laver_ and _blood_: _justification_ by the _Altar_ and _blood_.
The Court for the _Priests_, and the Court for the _people_ were separated[195] each from other; by a wall of three Cubits high.
The Court for the _people_ was sometimes called the _outward Court_, sometimes the _Temple_, sometimes _Solomon_’s _Porch_, because it was built about with Porches, into which the people retired in rainy weather: It had _Solomon_’s name, either to continue his memory, or because the Porches had some resemblance of that Porch which _Solomon_ built before the _Temple_, _1 King. 6. 3._ _Jesus walked in the Temple, in ~Solomon~’s Porch_, _John 10. 23._ _All the people ran unto the Porch which was called ~Solomon~’s_, _Acts 3. 11._ That is, this _outward Court_.
In the midst of the _peoples Court_, _Solomon_ made a brazen Scaffold for the _King_, _2 Chron. 6. 13._
This _Court of the people_ went round about the _Temple_, and though it was one entire Court in the days of _Solomon_, yet afterward it was divided by a low wall, so that the men stood in the inward part of it, and the women in the outward. This division is thought to have been made in _Jehosaphat_’s time, of whom we read, that he stood in the House of the _Lord_, before the _new Court_, _2 Chron. 20. 5._ that is, before the _Womens Court_.