2 Chronicles 3:4

The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure 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

3The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

5He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

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Cross References

John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

Acts 5:12The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

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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