This Picture would be Herod's Temple. Herod's Temple was built as an addition to Solomon's temple. The foundations are all Solomon's. You can see that they built a massive courtyard on each side. You can see where this would become a great place to set up shop and kind of create a town center. Tables would be overturned.

More of Herod's courtyard.


This is a modest representation of the original Temple. Imagine that dipped in gold. I think Solomon's temple would have been a little more extravagant than this picture shows. This does give a nice view of the set up and the storage spaces on the side.


In our last picture this gives us a cool idea of what it would be like to walk up and see the temple. It looks fancier from this angle, which is more accurate. Also, notice the on the side the stairway leading to the second story! This was quite the structure.


Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. (1Ki 6:2)

A cubit equals 18 inches. Therefore if you do the math for the above you will find that the Temple structure itself was 90 ft. long, 30 ft. wide, and 45 ft. high. This would be a pretty significant size structure considering there were no cranes or mechanical devices to create this building. The temple had little chambers attached to the side. These were small rooms that could be used for storage, similar to a closet.
Solomon took the temple and essentially dipped it in gold. There were also two Cherubim (Angels) in the Holy of Holies. These creatures were 15 feet tall and had wings which were 7 ½ feet wide each. One wing would touch the wall and the other would touch the other Cherubim’s wing. When the priest came into the Holy of Holies, he would have these two 15 feet tall, 30 feet wide, statues of angels looking right at him!