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Young's Literal Translation

1 Kings 6:2

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Cubit;   Temple;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Temple;   Weights and Measures;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arch;   Architecture in the Biblical Period;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Beam and Mote;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breadth;   Temple;  

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.
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 Life Bible
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.
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 And it cometh to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year -- in the month of Zif, it [is] the second month -- of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he buildeth the house for Jehovah. 2 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. 3 As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, twenty cubits [is] its length on the front of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit [is] its breadth on the front of the house; 4 and he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights. 5 And he buildeth against the wall of the house a couch round about, [even] the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and maketh sides round about. 6 The lowest couch, five by the cubit [is] its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit [is] its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit [is] its breadth, for withdrawings he hath put to the house round about, without -- not to lay hold on the walls of the house. 7 And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought [thither] hath been built, and hammer, and the axe -- any instrument of iron -- was not heard in the house, in its being built. 8 The opening of the middle side [is] at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third. 9 And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house [with] beams and rows of cedars. 10 And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits [is] its height, and it taketh hold of the house by 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
And the woman seeth that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 6:1
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:2
and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.
Genesis 6:6
and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.
Genesis 6:7
And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'
Genesis 6:8
And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 6:12
And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

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.


 
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