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1 Re 7:6
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- CondensedParallel Translations
Fece pure il portico di colonne, lungo cinquanta cubiti e largo trenta; sul davanti cera un vestibolo, sostenuto da colonne e coperto da un tetto.
Fece eziandio il portico a quelle colonne, di lunghezza di cinquanta cubiti, e di larghezza di trenta; e questo portico era davanti a quelle; talchč in fronte di esse vi erano colonne e travatura.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
before them: or, according to them
before them: or, according to them. 1 Kings 7:6
Reciprocal: Proverbs 9:1 - pillars
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he made a porch of pillars,.... At the west end of the house:
and the length thereof was fifty cubits; answerable to the breadth of the house:
and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: which, added to the length of the house, made it one hundred and thirty:
and the porch was before them; the four rows of cedar pillars of the house, 1 Kings 7:2 this porch was either for his guards to keep watch in; or for his courtiers to walk in, sheltered from rain or the like; or perhaps only for grandeur and magnificence:
and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them; the pillars of the porch, on which were laid beams of cedar for a storey over them, and so on; these were before and right against, and answered to the pillars of the house.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Probably the porch of the “House of the Forest.” Porches of columns immediately in front of columnar chambers were a favorite feature of Persian architecture. The whole verse should be translated, “And he made the porch of the pillars in length 50 cubits, and in breadth 30 cubits, and a porch before them (i. e., the pillars), and pillars, and a base (or step) before them.” Most of the Persepolitan porches had small pillared chambers at some little distance in front of them.
