2 Chronicles 3:4

2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

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

The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

6 He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

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BSB
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
KJV
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
WEB
The porch that was in front, its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
ASV
And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
DARBY
And the porch which was in front was twenty cubits in length, in front of the house broadways, and the height was a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
BLB
And the portico that [was] in the front, the length on the front of the width of the house [was] twenty cubits, and the height [was] twenty, and He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
ÅB
Og forhallen som lå foran huset, var tyve alen bred, svarende til bredden av huset, og hundre og tyve alen høy, og han kledde den innentil med rent gull.
OTB
Forhallen som var foran huset hadde samme bredde som huset, tjue alen,
og høyden var 120;
og han kledde innsiden med rent gull.
B1930
Og forhallen som lå foran huset, var tyve alen bred, svarende til bredden av huset, og hundre og tyve alen høi, og han klædde den innentil med rent gull.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • John 10:23

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

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  • Acts 5:12

    The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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  • Acts 3:11

    While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.

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