1 Kings 6:2 “The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long,…”

1 Kings 6:2

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

The house which King Solomon built for the LORD had a length of sixty cubits, and its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the house which King Salomon built for the Lord, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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 in Basic English

The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

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Cross references

“the house”

Ezekiel 40:1–41

Ezekiel 40:1–41 · BSB

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He too…

“threescore”

Ezekiel 41:1–15 Ezra 6:3 Ezra 6:4 Revelation 21:16 Revelation 21:17

Ezekiel 41:1–15 · BSB

Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

Ezra 6:3 · BSB

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits…

Ezra 6:4 · BSB

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

Revelation 21:16 · BSB

The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

Revelation 21:17 · BSB

And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.

3The 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.

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