1 Kings 6:3
Context6:3 The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet 1 long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet 2 wide, extending out from the front of the temple.
1 Kings 6:2
Context6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet 3 long, 30 feet 4 wide, and 45 feet 5 high.
1 Kings 3:4
Context3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. 6 Solomon would offer up 7 a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
Ezekiel 40:8-9
Context40:8 Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet. 40:9 He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, 8 and its jambs as 3½ feet; 9 the porch of the gate faced inward.
Ezekiel 40:15
Context40:15 From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. 10
Ezekiel 40:48-49
Context40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 11 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 12 and the sides 13 were 5¼ feet 14 on each side. 40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet 15 and the width 19¼ feet; 16 steps 17 led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.
[6:3] 1 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
[6:2] 3 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] 4 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”
[6:2] 5 tn Heb “thirty cubits.”
[3:4] 6 tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”
[3:4] 7 tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.
[40:9] 8 tn Heb “eight cubits” (i.e., 4.2 meters).
[40:9] 9 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
[40:15] 10 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
[40:48] 11 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
[40:48] 12 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
[40:48] 13 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
[40:48] 14 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
[40:49] 15 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).