◄ 1 Kings 6:17 ►
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Good News Translation
The room in front of the Most Holy Place was 60 feet long.

New Revised Standard Version
The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

Contemporary English Version
The temple's main room was 18 meters long, and it was in front of the most holy place.

New American Bible
The house was forty cubits long, that is, the nave, the part in front.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.

Context
The Temple's Interior
…16And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies. 17And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits long.18And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.…
Cross References
1 Kings 6:16
And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

1 Kings 6:18
And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

2 Chronicles 3:5
And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.

Ezekiel 41:2
And the breadth of the gate was ten cubits: and the sides of the gate five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length thereof forty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

1 Kings 6:16
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