Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 1:10

10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense

We are told, that the order of the Jewish daily Service was this. Twice in the Day the Priests. (whose Course it was to Minister, or such of them whose Lot it was) went into the Holy Place to Burn Incense according to the Law, Exod. 30.7. when they went in A Bell Rung to give notice, that it was the hour of Prayer; there were constantly there, 1. The rest of the Priests of the same Course. 2. The Levites. 3. Their Stationary men, who represented the whole Congregation, and laid their Hands upon the Beast slain. 4. So many more of the People as would Voluntarily come, and it was very ordinary for many to go (thus we read Acts 31. of Peter and Iohn going into the Temple at the Hour of Prayer) these made the Multitude of whom it is said, that while the Priest was Burning Incense, they were without, not without the Temple, but in the Court of Israel, without the Holy Place, in which the Priests was Burning Incense. Praying so they used to do privately by themselves. There is a Text in Ecclesiasticus, Ch. 50.15. which (tho it be not Canonical Scripture, yet as Credible as any other Civil History, and will much help to make the Readers understand the order of the Jewish Service, and what this Text saith.

Marginal references: Exod. 30.[illegible: 1 letter]. Levit. 16.17.