2 Chronicles 3:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 These were the specifications laid down by Solomon for building the house of God: the length was sixty cubits according to the old measure, and the width was twenty cubits;(A) 4 the front porch along the width of the house was also twenty cubits, and it was twenty cubits high.[a] He covered its interior with pure gold.(B) 5 The nave he overlaid with cypress wood and overlaid that with fine gold, embossing on it palms and chains.(C)
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- 3:4 The front porch…twenty cubits high: this figure, not given in 1 Kgs 7, is based on a variant Greek text that may be due to a later revision. The Hebrew text itself has “one hundred and twenty cubits high.” The Chronicler nearly doubles the height of the two free-standing columns adjacent to the porch in 2 Chr 3:15 as compared with the source, 1 Kgs 7:15–16.
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