This [436] Temple looked eastward, and stood in a square area, called the _Separate Place_: and [437] before it stood the _Altar_, in the center of another square area, called the _Inner Court_, or _Court of the Priests_: and these two square areas, being parted only by a marble rail, made an area 200 cubits long from west to east, and 100 cubits broad: this area was compassed on the west with a wall, and [438] on the other three sides with a pavement fifty cubits broad, upon which stood the buildings for the Priests, with cloysters under them: and the pavement was faced on the inside with a marble rail before the cloysters: the whole made an area 250 cubits long from west to east, and 200 broad, and was compassed with an outward Court, called also the _Great Court_, or _Court of the People_, [439] which was an hundred cubits on every side; for there were but two Courts built by _Solomon_: and the outward Court was about four cubits lower than the inward, and was compassed on the west with a wall, and on the other three sides [440] with a pavement fifty cubits broad, upon which stood the buildings for the People. All this was the [441] _Sanctuary_, and made a square area 500 cubits long, and 500 broad, and was compassed with a walk, called the _Mountain of the House_: and this walk being 50 cubits broad, was compassed with a wall six cubits broad, and six high, and six hundred long on every side: and the cubit was about 21½, or almost 22 inches of the _English_ foot, being the sacred cubit of the _Jews_, which was an hand-breadth, or the sixth part of its length bigger than the common cubit.