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1 Kings 6:2

Solomon

1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.

4 He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.

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BSB
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
KJV
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.
WEB
The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.
ASV
And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.
DARBY
And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.
BLB
And the house that King Solomon built for YHWH, sixty cubits [was] its length, and twenty its width, and thirty cubits its height.
ÅB
Huset som kong Salomo bygget for Herren, var seksti alen langt og tyve alen bredt og tretti alen høyt.
OTB
Huset som kong Salomo bygde for Herren var seksti alen langt, tjue alen bredt, og tretti alen høyt.
B1930
Huset som kong Salomo bygget for Herren, var seksti alen langt og tyve alen bredt og tretti alen høit.

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  • Ezekiel 40:1–41

    In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.

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  • Ezekiel 41:1–15

    Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

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  • Ezra 6:3–4

    In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

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  • Revelation 21:16–17

    The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

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