1 Kings 6:2-3

6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet ¹  long, 30 feet ²  wide, and 45 feet ³  high. 6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet ⁴  long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet ⁵  wide, extending out from the front of the temple.

1 Kings 6:20

6:20 The inner sanctuary was 30 feet ⁶  long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, ⁷  as well as the cedar altar. ⁸ 

1 Kings 7:6

7:6 He made a colonnade ⁹  75 feet ¹⁰  long and 45 feet ¹¹  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. ¹² 

1 Kings 7:27

7:27 He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet ¹³  long, six feet ¹⁴  wide, and four-and-a-half feet ¹⁵  high.

[6:2]  ¹ tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.

[6:2]  ² tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:2]  ³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[6:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “ten cubits.”

[6:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (this measurement occurs three times in this verse).

[6:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “with plated gold” (or perhaps, “with pure gold”).

[6:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

[7:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

[7:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:6]  ¹² tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and a porch was in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars) and pillars and a roof in front of them (i.e., the aforementioned pillars and porch).” The precise meaning of the term translated “roof” is uncertain; it occurs only here and in Ezek 41:25-26.

[7:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “four cubits.”

[7:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “three cubits.”