KJV King James Version
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
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1 Kings 6:3
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
WEB World English Bible
The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house. Ten cubits was its breadth before the house.
ASV American Standard Version
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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;
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 6
1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2 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.
3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits [was] the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits [was] the breadth thereof before the house.
4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
5 And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
6 The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
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וְהָאוּלָ֗םH197 · u.lamHall (of pillars)עַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵי֙H6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהֵיכַ֣לH1964 · he.khaltempleהַבַּ֔יִתH1004 · betplaceעֶשְׂרִ֣יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyאַמָּה֙H520 · am.mahcubitאָרְכּ֔וֹH753 · o.rekhlengthעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֖יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeרֹ֣חַבH7341 · ro.chavwidthהַבָּ֑יִתH1004 · betplaceעֶ֧שֶׂרH6235 · e.sertenבָּאַמָּ֛הH520 · am.mahcubitרָחְבּ֖וֹH7341 · ro.chavwidthעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהַבָּֽיִת׃H1004 · betplace
Cross-references
Matthew 4:5Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,2 Chronicles 3:3-4Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.John 10:23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.1 Chronicles 28:11Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,Ezekiel 41:15And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which [was] behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;Acts 3:10-11And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
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