1 Kings 6:3

And, the porch in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, according to the breadth of the house,—ten cubits in breadth, in front of the house.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2Now, the house which King Solomon built unto Yahweh, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth,—and thirty cubits in height.

4And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:21So he reared the pillars for the porch of the temple,—yea he reared the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin, and reared the left pillar, and called the name thereof, Boaz.

2 Chronicles 3:3And, these, are the things wherein Solomon was grounded for the building of the house of God,—The length, by cubits, in the first measure, was sixty cubits, and, the breadth, twenty cubits.

Ezekiel 41:15And he measured the length of the building against the front of the secluded place which was over the hinder part thereof and the galleries thereof on this side and on that side a hundred cubits,—with the inner temple and the porches of the court:

John 10:23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon.

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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