KJV King James Version
And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
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2 Chronicles 3:4
And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
WEB World English Bible
The porch that was in front, its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
ASV American Standard Version
And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
As to the porch that is on the front, the length is by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 3
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Now 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.
4 And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
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וְהָאוּלָ֡םH197 · u.lamHall (of pillars)אֲשֶׁר֩H834 · a.sherwhichעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֨יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהָאֹ֜רֶךְH753 · o.rekhlengthעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֤יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeרֹֽחַב־H7341 · ro.chavwidthהַבַּ֙יִת֙H1004 · betplaceאַמּ֣וֹתH520 · am.mahcubitעֶשְׂרִ֔יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוְהַגֹּ֖בַהּH1363 · go.vahheightמֵאָ֣הH3967 · me.ahhundredוְעֶשְׂרִ֑יםH6242 · es.rimtwentyוַיְצַפֵּ֥הוּH6823 · tsa.phahto overlayמִפְּנִ֖ימָהH6441 · pe.ni.mahwithinזָהָ֥בH2091 · za.havgoldטָהֽוֹר׃H2889 · ta.horpure
Cross-references
Acts 3:11And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.John 10:23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.Acts 5:12And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
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