1 Kings 6:17
15 He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18 The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.
19 Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
- KJV
- And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
- WEB
- In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
- ASV
- And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
- DARBY
- And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
- BLB
- And forty by the cubit was the sanctuary; it [is] the house before [it].
- ÅB
- Og huset - det Hellige foran koret - var førti alen langt.
- OTB
- Skipet, som er området foran det innerste rommet, var førti alen langt.
- B1930
- Og huset - det Hellige foran koret - var firti alen langt.