2 Chronicles 3:4

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

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In The King James Version

And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

In Context

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.

5And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

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Cross References

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

Acts 5:12Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:2-10

The Temple Built. ( b. c. 1012.) 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth… Read the whole commentary →

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