1 Kings 6:3

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

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In The King James Version

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

In Context

2The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

4And for the house he made windows, with network across.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:21He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

2 Chronicles 3:3And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

Ezekiel 41:15And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;

John 10:23And Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 6:2-11

The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1011.) 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord . 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord , the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the porch before the… Read the whole commentary →

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