2 Chroniques 3:3

Darby's French Translation

Et c'est ici le fondement que Salomon posa pour bâtir la maison de Dieu: la longueur, en coudées, d'après l'ancienne mesure, était de soixante coudées, et la largeur, de vingt coudées.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Or voici la base fix�e par Salomon pour b�tir la maison de Dieu: La longueur, en coud�es de l'ancienne mesure, �tait de soixante coud�es, et la largeur de vingt coud�es.

Louis Segond (1910)
Voici sur quels fondements Salomon b�tit la maison de Dieu. La longueur en coud�es de l'ancienne mesure �tait de soixante coud�es, et la largeur de vingt coud�es.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or ce fut ici le dessin de Salomon pour b�tir la maison de Dieu. Pour la premi�re mesure, soixante coud�es de long, et vingt coud�es de large.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2993-3000, bc 1011-1004

Solomon: 1 Chronicles 28:11-19

instructed: Heb. founded

The length: 1 Kings 6:2, 1 Kings 6:3

the first measure: It is supposed, with much probability, that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity: and, as these Books were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses; which may serve to reconcile some variations in the historical books, with respect to numbers when applied to measures.

Reciprocal: Ezra 6:3 - the height Ezekiel 41:2 - the length

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The marginal “founded” gives a clue to another meaning of this passage, which may be translated: “Now this is the ground-plan of Solomon for the building, etc.”

Cubits after the first measure - i. e., cubits according to the ancient standard. The Jews, it is probable, adopted the Babylonian measures during the captivity, and carried them back into their own country. The writer notes that the cubit of which he here speaks is the old (Mosaic) cubit.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 3:3. The length - after the first measure was threescore cubits — It is supposed that the first measure means the cubit used in the time of Moses, contradistinguished from that used in Babylon, and which the Israelites used after their return from captivity; and, as the books of Chronicles were written after the captivity, it was necessary for the writer to make this remark, lest it should be thought that the measurement was by the Babylonish cubit, which was a palm or one-sixth shorter than the cubit of Moses. See the same distinction observed by Ezekiel, Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 43:13.