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1 Kings 6:17

The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was sixty feet long.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Temple, Solomon's;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Nave;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oracle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cedar;   Holy Place;   Temple;   Text of the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
King James Version
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
English Standard Version
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
New Century Version
The main room, the one in front of the Most Holy Place, was sixty feet long.
New English Translation
The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.
Amplified Bible
The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long.
New American Standard Bible
The house, that is, the main room in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fourtie cubites long.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
Contemporary English Version
The temple's main room was sixty feet long, and it was in front of the most holy place.
Complete Jewish Bible
while the rest of the house, that is, the temple in front, was seventy feet long.
Darby Translation
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
Easy-to-Read Version
In front of the Most Holy Place was the main part of the Temple. This room was 40 cubits long.
George Lamsa Translation
And the house, that is, the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
Good News Translation
The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long.
Lexham English Bible
The main hall of the temple was forty cubits in front of the inner sanctuary,
Literal Translation
And the house was forty cubits, that is , the temple before it .
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the house of the temple before the quere was fortye cubites longe:
American Standard Version
And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
Bible in Basic English
And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the house, that is the temple before it, was fourtie cubites [long.]
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the house, that is, the temple before [the Sanctuary], was forty cubits long.
King James Version (1611)
And the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fortie cubites long.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made two ornaments of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.
English Revised Version
And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
Berean Standard Bible
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli thilke temple bifor the doris of Goddis answering place was of fourti cubitis.
Young's Literal Translation
And forty by the cubit was the house, it [is] the temple before [it].
Update Bible Version
And the house, that is, the temple in front, was forty cubits [long].
Webster's Bible Translation
And the house, that [is], the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].
World English Bible
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
New King James Version
And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
New Living Translation
The main room of the Temple, outside the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.
New Life Bible
The rest of the house, the center room in front of the most holy place, was as long as twenty long steps.
New Revised Standard
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but, forty cubits, was the house itself, - the same, was the temple, before the oracle.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.
Revised Standard Version
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

Contextual Overview

15he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards. 16Then he lined thirty feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place. 17The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was sixty feet long. 18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen. 19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple to put the ark of the Lord’s covenant there. 20The interior of the sanctuary was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar. 21Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold. 22So he added the gold overlay to the entire temple until everything was completely finished, including the entire altar that belongs to the inner sanctuary. 23In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim 15 feet high out of olive wood. 24One wing of the first cherub was 7½ feet long, and the other wing was 7½ feet long. The wingspan was 15 feet from tip to tip.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 4:20 - the oracle Ezekiel 41:2 - the length

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.
Genesis 6:7
Then the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”
Genesis 6:12
God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
“Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside.
Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”
Genesis 6:22
And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the house, that [is], the temple before it,.... The holy place, which was before the of holies:

was forty cubits [long]; and which, with the most holy place, being twenty cubits, as in the preceding verse, made the length of the whole house sixty cubits, as in 1 Kings 6:2.


 
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