1 Kings 6:2

New Life Version

The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was as long as thirty long steps, as wide as ten long steps, and eight times taller than a man.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

Hebrew Names Version
The house which king Shlomo built for the LORD, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.

King James Version
And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord , the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

English Standard Version
The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

New Century Version
The Temple was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

New English Translation
The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Amplified Bible
The length of the house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits (90 ft.), its width twenty (30 ft.), and its height thirty cubits (45 ft.).

New American Standard Bible
And the house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits in its length, and twenty cubits in its width, and its height was thirty cubits.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the house which King Salomon built for the Lorde, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

Legacy Standard Bible
As for the house which King Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits.

Contemporary English Version
The inside of the Lord 's temple was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

Complete Jewish Bible
The house which King Shlomo built for Adonai was 105 feet long, thirty-five feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high.

Darby Translation
And the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Temple was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

George Lamsa Translation
And the house which Solomon built for the LORD was in length sixty cubits and in breadth twenty cubits and in height thirty cubits.

Good News Translation
Inside it was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Lexham English Bible
Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height.

Literal Translation
As to the house that King Solomon built for Jehovah, its length was sixty cubits, its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This house that kynge Salomon buylded vnto ye LORDE, was thre score cubytes loge, twenty cubytes brode, & thirtie cubites hye.

American Standard Version
And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

Bible in Basic English
The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the house which king Solomon built for the Lorde, was threescore cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

King James Version (1611)
And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubites, and the breadth thereof twentie cubits, and the height thereof thirtie cubites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.

English Revised Version
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the hows which kyng Salomon bildide to the Lord, hadde sexti cubitis in lengthe, and twenti cubitis in breede, and thretti cubitis in heiythe.

Young's Literal Translation
As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits [is] its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

Update Bible Version
And the house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the width thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length of it [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the hight of it thirty cubits.

World English Bible
The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.

New King James Version
Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

New Living Translation
The Temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

New Revised Standard
The house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, the house which King Solomon built unto Yahweh, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, - and thirty cubits in height.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

Revised Standard Version
The house which King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the 480th year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. ² The house which King Solomon built for the Lord was as long as thirty long steps, as wide as ten long steps, and eight times taller than a man. ³ All along the front of the House of God was a porch ten long steps long and five long steps wide. It was as long as the house was wide. ⁴ He made windows for the house with beautiful cross-pieces. ⁵ He made a building of rooms against the outer walls of three sides of the house. These rooms were three floors high. ⁶ The bottom floor was as wide as three steps. The second floor was as wide as three long steps. And the third floor was as wide as four steps. For around the outside of the house he made places for the large wood cross-pieces to rest on. That way they would not need to be put into holes in the walls of the house. ⁷ The house was built of stone that was cut at the place where it was taken from the ground. There was no noise of a hammer or an ax or any iron object heard in the house while it was being built. ⁸ The door for the first floor room was on the right side of the house. They would go up steps to the second floor, and from the second to the third. ⁹ So he built the house and finished it. And he made the roof of the house of large pieces of cedar wood. ¹⁰ He built the three floors against the outside wall of the house. Each one was as high as a man could raise his hand. They were joined to the house with big pieces of cedar wood.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the house: Ezekiel 40:1 - Ezekiel 41:26

the length: According to Bp. Cumberland's estimation of the cubit, its length was 36 yds. 1 ft. 5/28 inch; its breadth 12 yds. 5/76 inch; and its height, 18 yds. 8/64 inch This constituted what is properly called the temple; but, besides this, there were the courts and colonnades, where the people might assemble to perform their devotions, without being exposed to the open air.

threescore: Ezra 6:3, Ezra 6:4, Ezekiel 41:1-15, Revelation 21:16, Revelation 21:17

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:20 - twenty cubits 2 Chronicles 3:3 - The length Psalms 78:69 - And he

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasing to the eyes, and could fill the desire of making one wise. So she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate.

Genesis 4:26
A son was born to Seth also, and he gave him the name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 6:1
When men became many in number on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.

Genesis 6:6
The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth. He had sorrow in His heart.

Genesis 6:7
So the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have made from the land, man and animals, things that move upon the earth and birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I have made them."

Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Genesis 6:12
God looked at the earth and saw how sinful it was. For all who lived on the earth had become sinful in their ways.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the house which King Solomon built for the Lord,.... For his worship, honour, and glory:

the length thereof [was] threescore cubits; sixty cubits from east to west, including the holy place and the most holy place; the holy place was forty cubits, and the most holy place twenty; the same measure, as to length, Eupolemus, an Heathen writer n, gives of the temple, but is mistaken in the other measures:

and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits]; from north to south:

and the height thereof thirty cubits; this must be understood of the holy place, for the oracle or most holy place was but twenty cubits high, 1 Kings 6:20; though the holy place, with the chambers that were over it, which were ninety cubits, three stories high, was in all an hundred twenty cubits, 2 Chronicles 3:4; some restrain it to the porch only, which stood at the end, like one of our high steeples, as they think.

n Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The size of Solomon’s temple depends upon the true length of the ancient cubit, which is doubtful. It has been estimated as somewhat less than a foot, and again as between 19 and 20 inches, a difference of nearly 8 inches, which would produce a variation of nearly 40 feet in the length of the temple-chamber, and of 46 in that of the entire building. It is worthy of remark that, even according to the highest estimate, Solomon’s temple was really a small building, less than 120 feet long, and less than 35 broad. Remark that the measures of the temple, both “house” and porch 1 Kings 6:3, were exactly double those of the older tabernacle (Exodus 26:18 note). This identity of proportion amounts to an undesigned coincidence, indicating the thoroughly historical character of both Kings and Exodus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 6:2. The length thereof was threescore cubits — A cubit, according to Bishop Cumberland, is 21 inches, and 888 decimals, or 1 foot, 9 inches, and 888 decimals.

	Yds.	Ft.	Inch.
According to this, the length, 60 cubits, was . . . . .	36	1	5.28
The breadth, 20 cubits, was . .	12	0	5.76
The height, 30 cubits, was . . .	18	0	8.64

This constituted what was called the temple or house, the house of God, c. But, besides this, there were courts and colonnades, where the people might assemble to perform their devotions and assist at the sacrifices, without being exposed to the open air. The court surrounded the temple, or holy place, into which the priests alone entered. Sometimes the whole of the building is called the temple at other times that, the measurement of which is given above. But as no proper account can be given of such a building in notes; and as there is a great variety of opinion concerning the temple, its structure, ornaments, c., as mentioned in the books of Kings and Chronicles, in Ezekiel, and by Josephus and as modern writers, such as Vilalpandus, Dr. Lightfoot, and Dr. Prideaux, professing to be guided by the same principles, have produced very different buildings; I think it best to hazard nothing on the subject, but give that description at the end of the chapter which Calmet with great pains and industry has collected: at the same time, pledging myself to no particular form or appearance, as I find I cannot give any thing as the likeness of Solomon's temple which I could say, either in honour or conscience, bears any affinity to it. For other particulars I must refer the reader to the three large volumes of Vilalpandus, Dr. Lightfoot's Works, and to the Connections of Dr. Prideaux.