The porch in front of the main room of the house was [a]twenty cubits in [b]length, [c]corresponding to the width of the house, and its width along the front of the house was ten cubits.

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  1. 1 Kings 6:3 About 30 ft. long and 15 ft. deep or 9 m and 4.6 m
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit its length
  3. 1 Kings 6:3 Lit on the face of

The portico(A) at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,[a] and projected ten cubits[b] from the front of the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 16 and 20
  2. 1 Kings 6:3 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verses 23-26

The porch which was in front of the house (A)was as long as the width of the house, [a]twenty cubits, and the height [b]twenty; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 About 30 ft. or 9 m
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 As in ancient versions; MT 120 cubits or about 180 ft. or 55 m

The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[a] long across the width of the building and twenty[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 3:4 That is, about 30 feet or about 9 meters; also in verses 8, 11 and 13
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:4 Some Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts; Hebrew and a hundred and twenty