1 Kings 6:26

Green's Literal Translation

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

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
The two of them were ten cubits high.

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 And he built the walls of the house inside with beams of cedar, from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling. He overlaid the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. ¹⁶ And he built the twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the walls. And he built for it inside, for the sanctuary, for the Holy of Holies. ¹⁷ And the house was forty cubits, that is , the temple before it . ¹⁸ And the cedar for the house inside was with carvings of gourds and flowers spread out; the whole was cedar; not a stone was seen. ¹⁹ And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the midst of the house, to place the ark of the covenant of Jehovah there. ²⁰ And the face of the Holy of Holies was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in height. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the altar with cedar. ²¹ And Solomon overlaid the house inside with refined gold, and caused it to pass over in chains of gold to the face of the Holy of Holies, and overlaid it with gold. ²² And he overlaid all of the house with gold, until all of the house was complete. And he overlaid with gold all of the altar that belonged to the Holy of Holies. ²³ And inside the Holy of Holies he made two cherubs of the olive tree; their height was ten cubits. ²⁴ And one wing of the cherub was five cubits; and the second wing of the cherub five cubits; ten cubits from the ends of its wings even to the ends of its wings.

Bible Verse Review
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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.