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1 Kings 6:2

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6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 1  long, 30 feet 2  wide, and 45 feet 3  high.

1 Kings 7:6

Context
7:6 He made a colonnade 4  75 feet 5  long and 45 feet 6  wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch. 7 
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[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.”

[7:6]  4 tn Heb “a porch of pillars.”

[7:6]  5 tn Heb “fifty cubits.”

[7:6]  6 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[7:6]  7 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.



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