1 Kings 6:26

Bible in Basic English

The two of them were ten cubits high.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The first cherub’s height was 15 feet and so was the second cherub’s.

Hebrew Names Version
The height of the one Keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the other Keruv.

King James Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

English Standard Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

New Century Version
each was fifteen feet tall.

New English Translation
Each cherub stood 15 feet high.

Amplified Bible
the height of the one cherub was ten cubits, as was the other.

New American Standard Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other Cherub.

Legacy Standard Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

Complete Jewish Bible
The height of the one keruv was seventeen-and-a-half feet, likewise that of the other.

Darby Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so of the other cherub.

George Lamsa Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Lexham English Bible
The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub.

Literal Translation
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the second cherub.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so yt ether Cherub was ten cubites hye. And he put the Cherubins within in the house.

American Standard Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the height of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was it of the other.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

King James Version (1611)
The height of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was it of the other Cherub.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

English Revised Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Berean Standard Bible
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that is, o cherub hadde the hiythe of ten cubitis, and in lijk maner the tother cherub.

Young's Literal Translation
the height of the one cherub [is] ten by the cubit, and so [is] the second cherub;

Update Bible Version
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Webster's Bible Translation
The hight of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub.

World English Bible
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

New King James Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

New Living Translation
each was 15 feet tall.

New Life Bible
Each of the cherubim was almost three times taller than a man.

New Revised Standard
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The height of the one cherub, was ten cubits, - and, so, of the second cherub.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That is to say, one cherub was ten cubits high, and in like manner the other cherub.

Revised Standard Version
The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood. ¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room. ¹⁷ And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.) ¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord. ²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold. ²¹ Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold. ²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold). ²³ In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high; ²⁴ With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

The height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] of the other cherub. Which is repeated from 1 Kings 6:23; that it might be observed, being of an extraordinary size.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:26. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits — Concerning the cherubs, their form, &c., Exodus 25:18. The height of each cherub was about eighteen feet and three inches.