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The house which King Solomon built for the Lord had a length of sixty cubits, a width of twenty cubits, and a height of thirty cubits.[a] The porch in front of the temple was twenty cubits[b] in length, the same as the width of the house, and ten cubits[c] deep in front of the house. He made beveled windows for the house.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:2 About 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high, or 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 14 meters high.
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 About 30 feet, or 9 meters; and in vv. 16 and 20.
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 About 15 feet, or 4.5 meters; and in vv. 23–26.

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.

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.

And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

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