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

And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house; and its width was ten cubits before the house.

And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without.

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The temple(A) that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.[a] The portico(B) at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,[b] and projected ten cubits[c] from the front of the temple. He made narrow windows(C) high up in the temple walls.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:2 That is, about 90 feet long, 30 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 27 meters long, 9 meters wide and 14 meters high
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 16 and 20
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verses 23-26