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These are the measurements specified by Solomon for building the house of God. According to the old standard of measurement, its length was sixty cubits and its width was twenty cubits.[a] The vestibule was twenty cubits long, spanning the entire breadth of the house of God, and its height was also twenty cubits.

He overlaid the nave with cypress, which he covered with fine gold and embossed with palms and chains.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:3 In antiquity a cubit was about 52 cm (see Ezek 40:5; 43:13).