1 Kings 6:17
Context6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. 1
1 Kings 6:26
Context6:26 Each cherub stood 15 feet high. 2
1 Kings 6:6
Context6:6 The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet 3 wide, the middle floor nine feet 4 wide, and the third floor ten and a half 5 feet wide. He made ledges 6 on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls. 7
1 Kings 7:23
Context7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 8 It measured 15 feet 9 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 10 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 11


[6:17] 1 tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”
[6:26] 2 tn Heb “the height of the first cherub was ten cubits; and so was the second cherub.”
[6:6] 5 tn Heb “seven cubits.”
[6:6] 6 tn Or “offsets” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “offset ledges.”
[6:6] 7 tn Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
[7:23] 4 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
[7:23] 6 tn Heb “five cubits.”
[7:23] 7 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”