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1 Kings 6:3

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.

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

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.

5 Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.

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BSB
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.
KJV
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
WEB
The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
ASV
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
DARBY
And the porch, in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, [and] ten cubits was its breadth, in front of the house.
BLB
And the portico [was] upon the face of the sanctuary of the house, twenty cubits was its length upon the face, the width of the house, and ten by the cubit was its width upon the face of the house.
ÅB
Og forhallen foran det Hellige var tyve alen, svarende til bredden av huset, og ti alen bred målt ut fra huset.
OTB
Forhallen foran skipet i huset var tjue alen lang, i tråd med husets bredde, og ti alen dyp foran huset.
B1930
Og forhallen foran det Hellige var tyve alen, svarende til bredden av huset, og ti alen bred målt ut fra huset.

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 41:15

    Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,

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  • John 10:23

    and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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  • Matthew 4:5

    Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.

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  • 1 Chronicles 28:11

    Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, storehouses, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.

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  • Acts 3:10–11

    they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

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  • 2 Chronicles 3:3–4

    The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

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