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2 Chronicles 3:2-4
International Standard Version
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
International Standard Version
2 He began construction on the second day[a] of the second month of the fourth year of his reign.
Dimensions of the Temple
3 These are the foundations that Solomon set in place for God’s Temple. The length in terms of the former standard measurements: 60 cubits;[b] its width: 20 cubits.[c] 4 A portico extended in front of the Temple for its entire width of 20 cubits,[d] and was[e] 120 cubits[f] high. Inside he had it overlaid with pure gold.
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- 2 Chronicles 3:2 The Heb. lacks day
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 I.e. about 90 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 I.e. about 30 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 I.e. about 30 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 The Heb. lacks was
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 I.e. about 180 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
New International Version
2 Chronicles 3:2-4
New International Version
2 He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.(A)
3 The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide[a](B) (using the cubit of the old standard). 4 The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[b] long across the width of the building and twenty[c] cubits high.
He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 That is, about 90 feet long and 30 feet wide or about 27 meters long and 9 meters wide
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty
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