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The House Solomon Built for Yahweh

(A)Now it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he [a]began to build the house of Yahweh. As for the house which King Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was [b]sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits. And the porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits [c]in length, [d]corresponding to the width of the house, and its [e]depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:1 Lit built
  2. 1 Kings 6:2 Approx. 90 ft. long, 30 ft. wide, and 45 ft. high or 27 m, 9 m, and 14 m; a cubit was approx. 18 in. or 45 cm
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit in its length
  4. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit on the face of
  5. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit width